“I came from a very traditional New Jersey '50s marriage. Everything changed during those years – from 1959 to1975 – including me.“

“The most optimistic interpretation of writer’s block is that it doesn't really exist. That all that's going on is certain parts of your body and your mentality are shutting down while unconsciously you're working through some deep problem in your work.”

“Look, we read you because you pursue stuff that's interesting to you and you try to tell it straight and you know sometimes that we're not going to like it.”

“But basically the general premise is that I got sober and my family gave me a reverse intervention. They were like, ‘We're worried about you. You're not drinking. What are you…pregnant?’”

“The Grateful Dead's music is not fascist marching music.”

“I'm most certain that Lee Harvey Oswald did not shoot John F. Kennedy.”

“I know a lot of guys that play saxophone better than me, but I play music better than them, so I win.”

“Most of their energy should go into honing their craft and not into marketing themselves, which is a responsibility that sadly, has been thrust upon all artists in this day and age.”

“So anarchical, iconoclast, overly-educated lunatics like myself — it never occurred to me to go work at an ad agency or Wall Street or anything that had to do with nine-to-five and accountability of that type.”

“I have a little bitty notebook in my pocket. I have slightly larger notebooks with spiral binding and then I have my computer. I keep 3 pens in my jacket pocket always — one black, one red, one blue.”

“I had a lot of advantages in life, in our elite institutions. But I have to say, having been in those elite insider places, I always felt a little bit like the outsider on the inside. I always felt like I was a little bit different.”

“Fui muy bendecido y privilegiado, y tuve maravillosas oportunidades. Fui a una gran prepa, fui a una gran universidad, tuve una gran educación. Tuve muchas ventajas en la vida, en nuestras instituciones de élite. Pero debo decir que, después de haber estado en esos lugares de élite, siempre me sentí un poco como un ajeno por dentro. Siempre sentí que era un poco diferente.”

“It's a great honor to become a member of the House of Lords. I think an even greater honor is that I'm a Knight of the Garter.”

“I am so tied to the Grand Canyon part of myself.”

“What I do for a living comes down to one thing. We could speak all day about every fancy term and delivery system and Spotify. It's about the song. It's about the song. It's about the song. And that's it.”

“In the beginning, you feel that the research is such an insurmountable mountain — you feel it’s such a Herculean or Sisyphean job…but you just have to get through it.”

“Sometimes I'll disagree with the smartest people I know. Are these acts of rebellion? I don’t know but it’s how I do things and I find that it works for me much of the time.”

“I view my future as being in Israel, and my children's future. And I view the future of the Jewish people here.”

“It bothers me that there's an unsolved problem and I latch on to two or three unsolved problems and I think about them all the time.”

“One needs to learn how to address that world because that's where it's going to be. And the physical, tangible this-ness of us is going to alter and I'm interested in that.”