We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

Life and art are nothing but associations of ideas and sorrows that nourish our illusory quest for the Holy Grail of human existence. It’s a mystery!

Great soul, great life.

To reach a target, you must never see it as unreachable!

I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.

Everyday life is a disaster, and disaster can liberate us.

When one of us says 'look, there is nothing out there,' what we are really saying is, 'I cannot see'.

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.