"Even nowadays some people see me as a "vreemde eend in de bijt" [translated literally as the strange duck in the pond. In other words, an outsider]."

“I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.”

“How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.”

“a man can break God's laws and be forgiven. That's what they teach us. But when he breaks Nature's laws, there's no forgiveness - and there's no escape. Sooner or later he pays the penalty, or his children pay it - or his children's children. It doesn't matter much. It must be paid.”

Source : Martha Ostenso (1937). “The Stone Field”, New York, Dodd

“If you’re alive, don’t move, if you’re dead, don’t worry about it.”

“Have you met the French? My...GOD they know how to party!”

“Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.”

“There are only two types of music.good and bad.”

“All the technique you can learn - and you should learn everything you can - you should have it here in the fingers not here in the head - and then you forget about it.”