When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.

The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.

I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.

With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE.

I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.