My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.

There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!

The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?

Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven't; there's no proof of it.

Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.