Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.

If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.

The power of music just kinda kills all those ills; it cures everything and you’ve got more energy just from the music. And, I’ve never seen it fail. It’s good for ya; real good for ya.

Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground, and maybe you'll live to tell the story.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

Music is the language of heaven.

A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.

The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.

Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.

So, what are you?""What I am is someone who doesn't want you to jump out of the window. The rest are details.

I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away by another thought: 'I'm so lucky that someone cates enough to loan me a dress.

I have an Apple computer, which I use to play Spider Solitaire and do research on the Internet.

Some people have the Bible. I have Vogue.

It is essential for men of science to take an interest in the administration of their own affairs or else the professional civil servant will step in - and then the Lord help you.

I just want to be young and fun and you know I think people should all wear yellow shoes.

Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that.

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror.