Everybody is a teenage idol.

I don't want to live on past records.

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no safety net and no assurance of any final closure. It is also quite appalling to realize how catatonic the imagination can become when we hedge our bets, opt for the safer direction at every fork in the path.

Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.