The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world in a self-constructed ghetto.

I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world so I have a lot of music I've already written.

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.

I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments write their own songs and sing the music and have a good time doing it.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing for the most part.

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.

I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows of making an appearance every now and then and writing music and I don't really have to do much else.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them very proud of them and we are in close contact as big-time friends but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

Music is my shining light my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?