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You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.

People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

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One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?

I'm a humanist.

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.

I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six?

You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.

I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure.

When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.

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