Most guys I know are assholes. I have some great asshole friends, but that's not the point. Friendship has got nothing to do with that. It's can you hang, can you talk about this without any feeling of distance between you? Friendship is the diminishing of distance between people. That's what friendship is, and to me it's one of the most important things in the world.

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.

No broken hearts, no broken necks.

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.

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

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.