The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
People look at me, and they go, ‘You’re white, you’re smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.’
Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is ‘The X Factor.’
The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.
I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, ‘Geez, this is ridiculous.’ You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man’s Led Zeppelin.
Because I don’t take money, I’ll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.