Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations that a young person who either marries or dies is sure of being kindly spoken of.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no like 'I'll be the rock star you be the adulating fan.'

When I grew up what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself in a sense in the mid 1960s really when I first heard composers like Terry Riley and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

Yeah I've been interested in music since I was a teenager always writing songs.

As a boy I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.