I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine.

No one to talk with, all by myself. No one to walk with, but I’m happy on the shelf.

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That’s all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

[on drumming] There’s something rather nice about spending the evening hitting things.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Men have died for this music. You can’t get more serious than that.

Enjoy yourself – it’s later than you think.

I feel like….Music is the – it’s the answer. It’s the reason.

If men be good, government cannot be bad.

Maybe I shouldn’t have these dreams and aspirations. Maybe I should have given up on life ten years ago and stopped fighting for my truth.

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

When you are in real estate, you are going to make some mistakes.

I’m using the insides of sounds to move around in a very subtle way which, I think, ends up being inevitable. I feel its the only solution to that particular problem that I presented myself.