I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.

Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.

But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.

I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of "Daydream" in a lot of elevators.

I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

First of all I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the comeback that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers somewhere to be viable, salable and so on.

My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18, that was an early equivalent of educational television. Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.

You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

A great tailor is like a great personal trainer - they tailor that suit to your natural physique.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?

"Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola. It's a masterpiece. I laughed a lot but was also overwhelmed by the story - a rare combination.

Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work.

O latest born and loveliest vision far of all Olympus' faded hierarchy.

I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.

I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out.