I'm drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I'll sleep when I'm dead.

It's hard to find a girl with a heart of gold, when you're living in a four letter world.

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

Maybe you simply criticized someone you hardly knew. You ruined part of their life. For them, part of your life, too.

Speaking as one who has abused privilege a long time, I tell you, it's great to be alive.

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too. ... And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard. ... Dylan can do no wrong. ... Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him. ... I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.