With the groups who asked me to join them - like the Rolling Stones, Spirit, David Bowie, and Blood, Sweat & Tears - I said no right away because I was way too much into my own thing.

I write titles of songs a lot. sometimes I'll end up writing a song that I don't have a title for and I'll say, 'Oh, this goes with that title.

There were a couple of companies that wanted to put me with a producer, and I said, "Well, I just produced my last album," and I wasn't about to go backwards.

Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder.

You have too take from each artist what works for you, and then create your own sound. You put different combinations in the mix and it becomes something unique in the end.

There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.

Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

I like Soderbergh, Spielberg, Lucas. There's a lot of talented guys out there obviously, and if you're a fan of films, you have to look at that stuff and learn from them.

I only wish I knew that you'd actually want to be with me when that time is over.

I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.