Fall mountains, just don't fall on me.

Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man.

When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.

I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.

If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland...I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around...Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.