To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.

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

I like all the kinds of music I've been into. I'm certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff. The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that's their business.

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.

Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it's Alright

If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.

Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.