I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.

I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.

I don't know anything about music.