 I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent. |
| People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music. |
| Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good. |
| Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. |
| I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs. |
| I don't like fashion. It's very heartless. |
| Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that. |
| Improvisation is too good to leave to chance. |
| It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished. |
| Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard? |
| When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal. |
| My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting. |
| I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it. |
| We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing. |
| Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone. |
| All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. |
| I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it. |
| If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything. |
| I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one. |
| As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death. |
