I got a very good life. I sold plenty of records, I get recognized plenty, I can always have somebody call up and get me a fine table at a restaurant. What do you really need, ultimately?

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.

You only go from nowhere to everywhere once. Let's enjoy it!

Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.

The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that's the power of love.

It's true, I do like cheering people up.

When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

Don't miss understand me, I'm not getting soft, all I want is a couple days off.

I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.

If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write.

I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4, 500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more.

I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face.

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.

All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.