“She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.”

And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won’t last.

You have to transmit to them what its like being in the theater.

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater.

You always have to remember that bullies want to bring you down because you have something that they admire.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

I’m more of a cringer at first and when it is years down the road and out of my way, I can actually appreciate it somehow.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

I don’t believe in dying. It’s been done. I’m working on a new exit. Besides, I can’t die now – I’m booked.

I have osteoarthritis so bad… I can walk up a hill; I just can’t walk down one.

I try to think of myself as a lion, bringing down the kill, controlling the jungle.