The highest purpose of art is to inspire.
Ah, but I was so much older then Iām younger than that now
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.
Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.
Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.
I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.
You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
