I don't know if people in New York recognize me or not. I'm not really conscious of it. If somebody stops me, then I suddenly realize that people are looking at me, but other times they may be doing it and I don't even know because I'm engrossed in something else.

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.

My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.

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

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

You don't find a style. A style finds you

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