Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.

I have never in my whole life asked for an autograph. It seems a little ... unnecessary.

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.

Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.

Relationships of any kind are powerful, and they always influence an artist. It's inescapable.

In my bands, I don't really walk around telling people what to play, just out of respect really. I mean, if there's something I feel in my gut, I'll bring it up.