Warren Zevon

“We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them. [Inside Out (VH1)]”

“But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.”

“I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.”

“I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.”

“Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.”

“Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.”

“Piano is like drudgery.”

“Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.”

“Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.”

“And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.”

“You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.”

“But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.”

“My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.”

“Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.”

“Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.”

“So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.”

“I don't like piano solos.”

“Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.”

“I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.”