We’re really lucky to live in a planet that has so much music. We could be living in some bland planet that had no music, no movies, no books, just a bunch of people going around having jobs and things like that. To me that would be a really miserable place, you know, to me music is what makes this world a really fun place to be, you know?

You are free. Close your eyes. Open your mind. Let this music in, and you will see that this is true

I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument.

I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have these things where you are. If you have them, what does the real world matter anyway?

Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.

Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways.

I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.