"Jolly old St. Nick!*"

"As old as the hills."

"This is how you should hold your palette."

"Never knew whether John Cale wanted to be Elvis Presley, Frankenstein's creature or the young Chopin."

"poetry needed no renascence. It was not young, it is not old."

"You are the one who should quit! Because of drink and old age you have taken leave of your senses."

"I have my big-boy pants on right now. I'm trying not to cry!"