Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.

I don't know why people thought I was retiring.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?