I write whatever shows up. That's good enough for me. I'm part of the first generation that wants to still do original material and not tour around as an oldies act.

I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind.

I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.

They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.

There were lots of things that I recognized from my experience with Eagle Claw and Wu Hao, and here was the combination of the whole kit and kaboodle, the whole tamale in one.