If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.

If you're gonna get wasted, get wasted elegantly.

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.

There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.