I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.

If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.

I can't draw. But I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft is... The arrangements were mine. They were little lines and stuff that I had written myself... And I was locked into this idea that vocals didn't count, melodies didn't count, songwriting craftsmanship didn't count. The only thing that counted was high arching guitar solos...

Everybody has their own level of doing their music. ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally.

I get on the airplane and there's a screen in front of everything. You get into a taxicab in New York, there's a screen blinking at you. I think it's going to have a tremendous effect on our brains, because those bright, saturated colors and those strong lines, they do things to your brain.

Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.

I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.