For me, creating music is a completely natural thing. I've been doing so, and I will continue doing so. I record almost everything I play at home.

If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.

Life ain't a concept. Music is not a concept. My titles are poetic abstractions of something that is with me all the time, not necessarily in music, but in life. Everybody's life.

I've always mixed my music by myself. Of course, there will always be some complications here and there, but it's never a problem.

It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court.

I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.

Even if yoga only enhanced physical fitness, the time spent in practice would be fully worthwhile.

You can be free from everything but the consequences of what you do.

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

I am 1952. I masticate. I am like a big stomach.

While some are as loathe to trade a Bishop for a Knight as a Cadillac for a Chevrolet, others are prepared to do so without hesitation.

Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.

Anger and desire for revenge can be a great motivating force. It's either that or you allow it to affect your confidence and that can be crippling.

I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.