"Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time."

"Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV."

"Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant."

"Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'"

"I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible."

"I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too just different than mine."

"A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else."

"An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all."