The problem is not a lack of understanding of what we are saying and doing; the problem is difference of opinion about what to do.
When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
Move in space with minimum waste and maximum joy.
Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.
Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?
I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.
I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G. I. Joes. I know it well.
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.
Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.