I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It's really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.

It's good to be anywhere.

What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.

Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.

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

When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.

But I've always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I'm here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.