Sometimes you have to be clever.

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

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.

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.

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