Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

Some things may work, but they definitely won't work every time. Some things may work at various times.

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.

And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.

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

People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that's left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.