My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.
Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll find ‘em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of ‘em.
If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.
Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.
To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.
If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.
Lincoln, answering friends who advised him to seek protection against assassination: "If they kill me the next man will be just as bad for them. In a country like this, where our habits are simple, and must be, assassination is always possible, and will come if they are determined upon it.
The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.
Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?