Now there is no place you can go where you don't hear certain types of music.

... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style. The result, I think, is pretty interesting ... we don't expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top. As long as we can play, we'll play, regardless of what it's for, who it's for or anything. It's fun for us - that's the important thing.

Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

There's a lot there to enlarge you. That's part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.

Kerouac was a breeze, some kind of incredible super-American, mythos personality blasting through the highways of 1947 America.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.