 You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own. |
| When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created. |
| I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from. |
| I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. |
| Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be? |
| When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked. |
| The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems. |
| If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. |
| I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record. |
| I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes. |
| I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. |
| I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary. |
| Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today? |
