Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.
Originally I was not writing songs for myself.
We need to listen to consumers' needs.
Akhir yang bahagia harus terjadi pada akhir sesuatu, jika terjadi di pertengahann cerita atau sebuah petualangan, atau yang semacamnya, yang terjadi hanyalah hiburan sejenak. (Anjing Laut pada Harun, hal. 207)
I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea... I had, like, every war-torn country in there.
I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band.
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
When I'm writing a song, I try to be the character.
There's something inimical about the camera and song.
A commercial is a commercial.
I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.
I'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community.
Even a rock was molten one day......
I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.
In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.
I'm really just a country boy.
I don't like singing before noon.
The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.
I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen.
