"The viola is the saddest of all instruments."

"I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession."

"The avant-garde makes more sense to me."

"I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time."

"The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank."

"If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go."

"The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience."

"Being a living legend is such a precarious livelihood. It’s like being a bar of soap in a shower which doesn’t have a…"

"I use cracks on the sidewalk to walk down the street. I'd always walk on the lines. I never take anything but a calcu…"

"I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dis…"