Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

There is music that seems to belong to you the moment that you hear it, and music about which you must be patient, awaiting the hour when it may reveal itself to you.

It was a real party of swells.

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

Songs are more powerful than books.

There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.