The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.

Story is what's most important.

I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.

I never wrote anything down. I never kept a diary, never kept a journal. I did write one letter home about touring with the Doors that I used as a reference for the book for some details there, and then I was glad I had that, but that was it.

I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer.

We've got blue light, we've got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can't get a decent night's sleep.