It's interesting when something new comes along, a band of dwarfs playing electronic harps or something, but I'm not searching.

You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

The term "genius" gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.

If you're working at the factory and you're cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You'll just make yourself ill.

You never knew what was going to happen in concert. It was a really exciting prospect to go onstage, and you can hear that in the live recordings ... wherever we were and whatever year it was, we always went onstage determined to do our best.

Many people in the neighborhood liked hip-hop and house music, and I couldn't play that. You can't perform that on guitar or drums, which was what I was playing, at the time. But, I got so much from mariachi bands that were constantly playing in the neighborhood.

There's always music that moves me. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It's usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.