What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.

I don't feel that one instrument has more weight than others. Any sound that you can produce adds to your vocabulary of possibilities.

I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey.

It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.

I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn't fit humans. Humans can't possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed. It is a religion that works against you because the template don't fit. It's not human, you know.

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.