"I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career."

"I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have."

"If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music."

"I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll."

"They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion."

"I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world."