I'm much better at saying something on the answering machine than texting.

There are no musically untalented people.

The most unique thing about music making is sharing.

If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things; if you say "the silence is the music," then it's the music.

Musical talent is maybe something, but there are no unmusical people. You're moved by music. It's total rubbish to say, "Oh, I'm unmusical." It doesn't exist; it's ridiculous.

You never know what you're going to share. I can play, I know what is written - the marks, the things the composer tells me to do - and I do it, but it will still sound different each day.

I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible.

People can text with two hands and are so fast and I am not... I just have that one person I want to talk to.

I have one guy that I really have to talk to once a day, and if I don't talk to him once a day, I really feel like something is not completed. This is, like, an attraction story.

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.

For me, touring is about looking after myself.

Whether someone believes something or not, believer or non-believer, as long as you are a member of the human family, you need warm human feeling, warmhearted feeling.

Traditionally vice presidential debates don't move the needle one way or the other. They have largely been irrelevant and inconsequential.

In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.

Normal muscles should function naturally in much the same manner as do the muscles of animals.

I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde.

There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.

Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed.