Don't you love it that Prince doesn't use Twitter? Don't you think he's somewhere on a unicorn?

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitar player in the world... a guy who mastered that instrument. It was talking when he played. And when he did a solo, he made the guitar cry - or made it sound like it was coming from the devil's amplifier.

To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.

Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.

I can show you in music better than I can tell you in words.

Treasure, that is what you are