If there's anything I have learned, it's to sort of be sensitive to what - to how much - to how creative the act of listening is and to how powerful the act of listening is.

I'm looking for the surprises, you know, and the unexpected moments of technology, the unexpected moments of musical creation.

Every time I'm in a foreign place and a different city, I'm always asking around to say, OK, well, what's special here in this particular place? What makes these people move here and why?

I'm one of the people who will hear a song in a taxi and be like, stop, stop the car. Like, let's go back. What was that?

I do think of myself as a taste-maker, yes, absolutely.

I have got to look at the flip side of things, because, in a way, music is always a conversation, you know? It's a conversation between the musician and their tools and their technologies.

Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul

Don’t marry the most beautiful woman in the world

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

Trying to wage war on 23 million Americans who are obviously very committed to certain recreational activities is not going to be any more successful than Prohibition was.

I'm an artist. There are a lot of people in the business who aren't. It's like they've got a shoe repair shop.

It doesn't take much to get me up for baseball. Once the National Anthem plays, I get chills. I even know the words to it now.

The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.

It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.