I like any and all of my associations with music- writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.

I don't pursue anything. The only thing I always answer is my own impulse.

I live with music.

I don't believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis. In the case of Tim Buckley or Dylan you have on…

The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.