Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is going to be a common ground.

If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.

See, there's only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that - the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

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

It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.