I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience..

A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence..

I don't see the point in working just to be working..

I'm a free agent. I want the major-label budget for my next album, but I'm too big for the label to pay me. I don't want to be controlled, to be wate….

It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do..

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us..

‎A change of work is the best rest..

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more..

Love which economizes is never true love..

Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since..

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.

All the backstories are there but not talked about..

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive..

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love..

I don't do live things..

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishi….

I tell it like it is. I tell it like I see it. I tell it like I envision it. I tell it like I live it..

Nobody understands your life, but you..

It's not the words but the music that counts..

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French..

It is poetry that changes everything..