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're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

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

Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.

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

I don't regret nuthin.

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