"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."

"Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse."

"We're all in this alone."

"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them."

"I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain."

"No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up."

"The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead."

"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."

"All appears to change when we change."

"I don't drink; I don't like it - it makes me feel good."

"A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm."

"Labels try to make you say what they want or write the songs they think you should write. [Johnny] Cash did his own thing."