But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.
In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.
I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures.
I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.
I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.
I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else.
As a music supervisor, you learn to embrace the best of every genre, and I really have to say there's nothing that I'm embarrassed of.
Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.
Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.
The Rolling Stones were one of the best bands ever, and 'Sticky Fingers' is one of the best rock albums I've ever heard.
Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.
I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.
The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.
I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.
The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.
Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead.
You know, there's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best.
