You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.

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.

To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

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.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

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