The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.

You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons

Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from childhood.

The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?' Rock is simple, blunt, colorful. Same with my paintings. You don't stand back and wonder what it is. That's Jim Morrison, that's a panda, that's a scene on the West Coast. It's not abstract.

I don t wanna see old people on a rock & roll stage.

You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.

People say Altamont was the end of the 60s. It was unfortunate, but at the time we didnt think of it as signaling anything. The fact that nobody got killed at Woodstock is amazing because that was half a million people. We only had 300,000 at Altamont.