The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent.

The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.

We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.

Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.

No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.

You ever been on a date so bad, the girl makes you drop her off at another dude's house?

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Money is like a mirror to our culture. What we see tells us who we are.

I still bite my nails.

Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

It's such a normal thing for a dance producer to make music and try it out in the club, but that was relatively new to me. I wanted to make a good album that felt like it had a point.

Wake up early; it is great to live the mornings.

I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.

I disagree with everything I used to say.