The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.

In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.

I see music as fluid architecture.

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

The rock & roll industry is very incestuous, and we have all been close at one time or another. A lot of beautiful music and a lot of beautiful times came from that. A lot of pain, too, because, inevitably, different relationships broke up.