Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.

He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

I'm often surprised by classical music and musicians. I've met a large number of them because my wife works for the Boston Symphony, and I'm in that world a lot now. I'm surprised at how difficult it is for people who are classically trained to read music or to memorize music, how difficult it is for them to improvise, to just go off and play. It's sort of, it's like terra incognita. They just, (makes noise) they don't get it.

I was a functional addict.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.