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.

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.

I became stereotyped.

I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.