A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right, now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself, you decide for yourself.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

Well, my daddy, he didn't leave me much, you know he was a very simple man, but what he did tell me was this, he did say, son, he said, he say, you know it's possible to become so defiled in this world that your own father and mother will abandon you and if that happens, God will always believe in your ability to mend your ways.

You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

People think that singing and playing is easy. It's not. It's easy to strum along, but if you actually want to really play, where it's important, that's a hard thing and not too many people are good at it.