I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia.

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

You know, being America, being the land of "number ones", everyone wants to be a leader before they follow.

If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.