 Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal. |
| No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. |
| I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar. |
| My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die. |
| Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped! |
| At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar. |
| With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again. |
| The more decadent a culture gets, the more they have a need for what they don't have at all, which is innocence, so you end up with kiddie porn and a perverse obsession with youth. |
| The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy. |
| You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining. |
| I hate show business. |
| This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms. |
| Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block. |
| Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to he right. |
| There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. |
| I learned a woman is never an old woman. |
| Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time. |
| We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy. |
| You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him. |
| When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing. |
