“Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.”

“I've looked at life from both sides now From up and down and still somehowIt's life's illusions I recallI really don't know life at all”

“We are stardustBillion-year old carbonAnd we've got to get ourselves back to the garden”

“I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.”

“It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker.”

“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.”

“You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.”

“I see music as fluid architecture.”

“I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.”

“The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.”

“No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.”