You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.

You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin

You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same old place.

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.

To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.

Root yourself in this earthand it will root itself in you.

Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway.

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do

Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.

A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.

Faith is the spiritual house in which we live.

You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.

Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.