If I ever really felt depressed, I would just start putting on all my old records that I played as a kid, because the whole thing that really lifted me then still lifted me during those other times. It was good medicine for me, and it still does that for me when I put something on. Isn't it wonderful that we've got all that good medicine? I think it's got to be all part of our DNA, this mass communication through music. That's what it is. It's got to be, hasn't it? Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.

There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.

I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I've got to do is keep playing.

The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.

I know where I'm going musically. I can see my pattern and I'm going much slower than I thought I'd be going.

I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.

The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.