My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage.

Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ.

If you'd done a good job you'd just step back and let all these different chemistries interact and let it go.

Only through sheer ambition did I end up playing on [Bob Dylan sessions] and the fact that I could do that is a testament to how disorganized it really was.

I liked being challenged by music. It's good for me.

...You couldn't help being influenced by Dylan.

I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after "Like A Rolling Stone".

Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.

Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.

Every now and then we could steal somebody else's stuff.

The [Bob] Dylan sessions were very disorganized, to say the least. I mean, the "Like A Rolling Stone" session I was invited by the producer to watch.

Love is my inner strength and my power.

It's okay", you say, perhaps more to yourself than to him. Like if you keep telling yourself that it's okay, then it will be.

Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing [as a nice safe history].

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

You've got to be able to sell yourself.

I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me.

If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people.

To give importance to trifling matters.

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it's a big success story for everyone - except the music industry itself.