When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.

If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination.

The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.

What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent.

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

I loved Christmas. We had a really great time. But there wasn't - it was all - you had to be happy with, you know, an orange and a couple of walnuts, you know, in your stocking.

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.

As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.

It's always been this way, I wanted to tell him. We bear the unbearable. We endure the unendurable. We do what must be done until we ourselves are undone.

You must take the trouble discover a worthy purpose for being on this ever green earth.

I don't try to knock people out, but I have the ability to press him and get the cheese.

... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.

Christ is God or He is the world's greatest liar and imposter.

When you put your mind to it, you usually find that there is a way to achieve what you want after all.

I listen and talk to God daily.

Those who are nurtured best, survive best.

Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.