If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.

I don't feel I have to top myself at all.

You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how you grow.

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.

When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there's a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.

I don't like being stuck in one situation, day to day.

The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.