In reality everybody has got musical thoughts. If you are able to overcome the part of it which is muscle training, which is what most musical playing actually is, performance actually is, is muscle training, and you are able to convert your ideas directly into music, you're a musician, too.

And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.

Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music. It doesn't matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is. The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.

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

With the recognition comes additional responsibility, because then we're no longer a one-shot. We're now part of the environment.