I'm really interested in bands that sound nothing like anything I do or can do. That's what interests me.

It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.

You may leave school, but it never leaves you.

We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music.

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

The early gigs were pretty panicky - and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take anything brand new, for the first time in years.

For a heart without love is a song with no words And a tune to which no one is listening So your heart must give love and you'll find that You shine like rain on the leaves you'll be glistening.

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

What kind of good deeds? Like Girl Scouts? Because I got kicked out of Brownies and they won't give me another chance to keep my clothes on at camp.

God’s great love is the grace of redemption.

I have always pictured accupuncture like falling into a box of sewing needles, and then standing up refreshed and free of pain.

and when his lips touched mine forthe very first time . . . i knew he is theone

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

I didn't listen to executives.

I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.