What a beautiful world this will be What a glorious time to be free.

It's great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it's wonderful to think that we've turned a few people on to jazz over t….

When you get a groove going, time flies..

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me..

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?.

Now why the hell would I want to increase the volume of my ejaculation ? They can already hear me in the apartment next door..

I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the present, or the half century in be….

We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK..

I had a dream that Britney Spears rubbed her breasts in my face and Jennifer Lopez gave me head while Salma Hayek sucked my toes and the Olsen twins ….

I think of Steely Dan as being of its time, and it may be inseparable from its time..

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music..

I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow th….

I don't think you can escape the environment we live in now..

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws..

People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind..

I'm starting to get older, and began to think about mortality a little more. My mother died in 2003 and that was a big shock. When your parents start….

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically..

Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett..

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly..

Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting, it can make a very simple m….

My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier ….