Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

I always felt people should live with animals.

Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.

I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.