We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

Half the battle is selling music not singing it. It's the image not what you sing.

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list I had a small rush of 'I've made it!' But the next morning it occurred to me I didn't know what it was so I called my agent and asked what being a 'New York Times' bestselling author really meant. He informed me that I was now a thousand pound gorilla.

I'm not sure about the selling part but I've always found that the things I've worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.