It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.

I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.

I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

I'm not Sammy Glick. I've never killed anyone. I don't have to. I'm too talented.

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.

Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

I am truly my mother's son.

It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

Broke is a Hollywood term!

When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

Uhm, I'm the one wanting the lessons! I don't want to say too much about it because I'd rather have you see the movie, but he's trying to find his music.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.