We have a deficit of wonder right now.

If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.

I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way

I don't really like listening to the radio so much.

You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.