When you're 20, you can't imagine being 30. When you're 30, you can't imagine being 40. When you're 40, you can't imagine being 100.

Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.

[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

I'm not getting old I'm evolving.

Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'