My hobby is silence.

I love bipolar people.

Every note has to come out clean.

I started out playing 'Chopsticks.'

I scarcely talk to reporters at all.

I'm almost totally politically inactive.

I played on a few Frank Sinatra sessions.

I'm kind of the Forrest Gump of rock n' roll.

California always struck me as a police state.

Both economics and politics are false sciences.

Autism is not a disability, it's a different ability.

Goodwill is earned by many acts; it can be lost by one.

I've always sort of been at odds with radio programmers.

Remember to practice a little every day -- that's crucial.

I wish I had gone into industrial plumbing. That's a joke.

My first job in a country band was after I moved to California.

I started playing in nightclubs when I was about 14 in Oklahoma.

I remember reading 'Catcher in the Rye,' but I don't think I got it.

Autism; It's not new just because you haven't heard of it until now.

I am happy with what comes, I don't have expectations of any stature.

I have a certain amount of difficulty dealing with too much limelight.

I had a whole bunch of bad country songs, so I put 'em all on an album.

Autism is not a choice. Acceptance is. Imagine if the opposite was true.

Apparently I was a Billboard top touring act of 1973, but nobody told me.

Forget the shoes, forget the mile long walk... just stop judging each other.

I really am serious abut catfish farming. I'm very interested in aquaculture.

I used to play on Phil Spector's records, and he liked to use three pianists.

I like to think of my son as having an extra puzzle piece rather than missing one.

My whole family's been involved with music, and it's been so since the minstrel days.

I'm just concerned with going about my business and making the records I want to make.

I like the Beatles very much, and there are certain things about the Stones that I like.

Autism is the filter through which all my other senses must pass, both input and output.

Karen Carpenter was just a singularly amazing singer. There was just not anybody like her.

One of the features of being a piano player is playing as an accompanist for other people.

I'm always having people come up to me and say I saved their life - but I don't remember it!

I am not aware of my public image or what people think of me. I don't evaluate myself that way.

It's kind of depressing to make a lot of records and not get the kind of response they deserve.

I can live with the pain of losing but I can't live with the thought of not having tried my best.

Never underestimate someone with Autism, because there could be Brilliance struggling to get out.

When I say I don't get involved in politics, I merely mean that I don't talk to reporters about it.

The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn't try to convince anybody to believe like you do.

The whole world can believe in you but that won't mean a thing if you don't believe in yourself too.

I didn't start out to become famous, so when it disappeared, I thought, well, that happens sometimes.

I was on the road with Jerry Lee Lewis when I was 15 - I can't imagine not doing it. That's what I do.

I make records all the time. But making records is not quite the same as getting them to the audience.

Hugs may come less frequently from someone with autism but when they do, you know it means everything.

Actually, I didn't listen to country music very much in Oklahoma. I listened to blues and rock n' roll.

I've grown up on Bob Dylan and all that, but there was a certain standard set up by people before 1955.

I would have to say Sam Cooke is the one I admired most. His artistry and vocal, just the way he did it.

I love you in a place where there's no space or time I love you for my life 'cause you're a friend of mine

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