"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know."

"To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it."

"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."

"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."

"Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty."

"There's more good music being made now than ever before."

"I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks."