We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing.
Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.
We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.
Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.
When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there.
Who am I to blow against the wind?
Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.
I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.
I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.