GREAT SECRET Whenever I’m learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high.

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.

What I've always lacked is a really strong band to back me up.

Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form.

Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.