I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit.

A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.

When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.

People most strenuously seek to evaluate performance by comparing themselves to others, not by using absolute standards.

They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.

I’m sorry that I don’t like your tattoos.”I walked away. I walked back to him. “I mean that I don’t like tattoos, not just your tattoos. I like your skin, though.”I walked away.

I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]

Put in the superlatives yourselves, I'm running out. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy.

I believe in love and marriage, but not necessarily with the same person

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

in California death is one of the most successfully kept secrets there is. If you doubt this, try to find a cemetery.

Just getting back to the essence. Even the record I put out, "1 of 1," I went to Jamaica and shot that video and I'm singing in the song - that was different for me.