Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.

I don't like piano solos.

I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.

That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

Dylan can do no wrong.

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.

Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.

Enjoy every sandwich.

It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.

Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.

Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.

Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.

My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.

I wish I sang better.

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

I have no guitar technique.

Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

I'm not a big jazz fan.

Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.

Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.

I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.

Piano is like drudgery.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It creates the failures. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

We have a rich tradition here in the United States of great decathletes, which is amazing 'cause we have absolutely no program to develop these guys. Zero. There's nothing. They do it on their own, just like I did back in '76.

Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology. But within the coming decades, we will understand dark matter, perhaps test string theory, find planets which can harbor life, and maybe have Brain 2.0, i.e. our consciousness on a disk which will survive even after we die.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

People want to give everybody a pass, but leadership comes at a price.

I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

You do get some weirdos, but if there are any nice people out there who want to write to me pleasantly, then they'll get a pleasant reply back!