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

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.

If you are going to develop beast technology, you want to start by having cage technology. You want to make the rules first, you know.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

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.

The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.

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