Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.

No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone!

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances.

My parents were older than normal when they had me, and had been very into the politics of the 1960s, so I was brought up in that atmosphere.

It's great to have other people's help. Then the music gets heard. There's a lot more commercial support for that now.

Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.

It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.

I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating.

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.

When you open your heart, only then will the light come in.

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.

When I came to America, I was really into all the things people eat here. . . . People called me Muffin because I would eat muffins all the time.

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.

Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.

There was Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, an aloof superstar who had everything and needed no one. And Michael Jackson, the shy kid under the mask, who lacked even a single real friend.

It's a travesty for the games. It's cutting into the heart of this community.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

Feeling is the secret.

In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.