I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

Whatever I'm already doing becomes enhanced when I smoke pot. It can also be demotivating, because if I'm not doing anything and I smoke a joint, it enhances just sitting in a chair. Then I don't even want to get up to change a record. That might not be a bad thing, but you have to get things done once in a while.

Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.

I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.

One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.

In fact, I've only been to a couple of other people's dinner parties. But I must admit, I really enjoyed the few I've been to, but I'm not really on that circuit.

The cliché of that sort of wasted, renegade, drugged-out musician of the '70s is kind of dead and gone now. And I suppose that a lot of people still keep relying on that, or some kind of image to perpetuate something that they think they're supposed to sound like. But that kind of takes you away from real inspiration and, you know, real artistic discovery of the individual.