One of the beauties of working in radio is the way a whole setting can be richly evoked simply by the addition to the track of a little birdsong and a church bell in the distance.

I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.

I remember Bob Dylan saying in an interview that at a certain point he'd had to learn to do consciously what he'd previously done unconsciously or automatically. That resonates.

Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don't mess with 'em.

Songs came first. I started out in 1965 trying to copy the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Stones, like most kids I knew. I'm still trying. Songs are hard to beat.

Limitless material growth is not sustainable or moral.

In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it, all right.

You can't ring the bells and at the same time walk in the procession.

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.

Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.

When I first came out to L.A., Hollywoods idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.

No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.

The orthodox faith painted God as a revengeful being, and yet people talk about loving such a being.

If only those old walls could talk...how boring they would be.

Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.