[Rock 'n' roll] music started out with some cat banging a log with a couple of pieces of stick. He sent a message across a river and although the cat on the other side receiving the message didn't know the exact words, he did understand basically something about what was being communicated.

I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind of style. I don't like where you play for 16 bars and then break it up into what somebody's version of what birds twittering sounds like, or what the sound of the city is, or what New York sounds like.

I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.

I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.

Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.