I write titles of songs a lot. sometimes I'll end up writing a song that I don't have a title for and I'll say, 'Oh, this goes with that title.

With the groups who asked me to join them - like the Rolling Stones, Spirit, David Bowie, and Blood, Sweat & Tears - I said no right away because I was way too much into my own thing.

There were a couple of companies that wanted to put me with a producer, and I said, "Well, I just produced my last album," and I wasn't about to go backwards.

After failure, You must resolve to do whatever the object of your resolution is.

Don’t expect investors to be throwing millions on the table for you to go off and buy a bigger house, get a new car, party half the week away, and generally upgrade your lifestyle.

Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.

I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.

...in some ways I relied on that- someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and praying it all worked out.

There is no safer. There’s not even safe, never has been.

Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright-walking, big-brained, super-intelligent ape.

Tales of adultery are much improved by period costumes.

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.

No one can understand my Mystery. The best you can do is to get immersed in it. It is no use your arguing about pros and cons; dive and know the depth; eat and know the taste.