Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

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.

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

We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.

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

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

Every silver lining has a touch of grey.