Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed

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.

Fear makes you worry and worry makes you weary.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.

When you set out for Ithaca, ask that your way be long

This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.

Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.

Shut your eyes and see.

Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.