
“I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.”
Interview http://www.expectingrain.com/dok/int/shelton1978.07.29.html with Robert Shelton, Melody Maker (29 July 1978)
Attributed without citation at John Cale - Quotes, xs4all.nl, 16 November 2012 http://werksman.home.xs4all.nl/cale/quotes/index.html,
“I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.”
Interview http://www.expectingrain.com/dok/int/shelton1978.07.29.html with Robert Shelton, Melody Maker (29 July 1978)
“As a musician you can cover everything. I'm not just a concert pianist.”
The Irish News, 22/01/2005
Musician's life
Teenage Dream, written by Katy Perry, Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Benjamin Levin, and Bonnie McKee
Song lyrics, Teenage Dream (2010)
“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”
How Do You Like Me Now?!, written with Chuck Cannon
Song lyrics, How Do You Like Me Now?! (1999)
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 233