I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.

Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us."