"Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way"

"Music is my religion"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule"

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary"

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast"

"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground"

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"

"Music is the universal language of mankind"

"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff"

"Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city"