When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

This loneliness won't leave me alone.

Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening comes

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take out the TCP.

I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.

You can never deplete your love by giving it away. Why not give yourself to love?

There's so much to be afraid of.

If our pain doesn't destroy us, it just might transform us into truly human beings at last.

Just the way in Europe, Paris, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, and Frankfurt, possibly and Berlin, certainly, all had important roles, because of independence. Because they were depending on themselves.

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of.

How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details of his technique! To just let him lead one by the hand.

When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.

The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can.

This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?

I think psychology would be an easy transition and figuring out the human mind somehow.