"I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange I never thought I would be."

"On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts."

"To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me."

"I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody."

"I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists."

"I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world."

"It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real."

"To dream is to realize that every failure is just a stepping stone to greatness."