To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

You are the architect of your future

How do you know when it's over?" "Maybe when you reach a paradoxical state-hating to love someone

Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

I had a lot of fun with Val Kilmer. He's like a big kid.

You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.