The world don't need any more songs... As a matter of fact, if nobody wrote any songs from this day on, the world ain't gonna suffer for it... There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could be sent, probably, each of them, a hundred songs, and never be repeated... Unless someone's gonna come along with a pure heart and has something to say. That's a different story.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over the years I've grown to really appreciate the German people.

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.