A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.