And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.

The only way things work around here is if everybody wants it to work. If everybody wants it to work, then it has a prayer. Even then, there's no guarantee. But at least it has a prayer.

As a musician you fall into certain patterns that you're not conscious of, unless you start listening to yourself on tape a lot. If you do that you start recognizing habits; then you have to try and break them.

Technology didn't just go, clunk. It was this early disease, starting with a plow, I guess, or something like that, the first tool that made it so you could do more things. The first domesticated animal, or the first wheel.

Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.

The Japanese are hard to figure out.

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.