I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.

I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.

I won't be righteous again. I'm not sure anymore.

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Someday we'll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that's how you and I will be