"The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas."

“I know that for category purposes, people have to lump certain artists in with genre that they make their name or their bones in. Nobody can tell me that Taj Mahal is pure blues. Nobody can tell me that Mike Bloomfield was pure blues. It was a lot of other things going on as well.”

Source : Source: magazine.100percentrock.com

“Further, bearing up under our own burdens can help us develop a reservoir of empathy for the problems others face.”

“You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Everything they teach in school is oriented so that they can test it to show that you know it, instead of taking note of the obvious, which is that people learn by doing what people want to do.”

“I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.”

“When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."”

“I lead a very boring life.”

Source : "'All those lines about how fabulous you are... it's rubbish'". Interview with Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2001.

“Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?”