In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.

We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.

I've learned to dance with a hand in my pants.

There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.

They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known.

I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20; I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, I said, "ok, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs."