People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

It happens to us quite often-it feels as though I'm not playing my instrument, something else is playing it and that same thing is playing all three of our instruments. That's what I mean when I say it's frightening sometimes. Maybe we'll all play the same phrase out of nowhere. It happens very often with us.

I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.