We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

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

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.

Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.

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

You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.