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.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.

Valium would have helped that bash.

I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.

Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.

I've found that from my point of view, the Chen style contained many things that I knew on a fairly superficial level from Eagle Claw, and that had Chen elements of what seemed to me the soft in Eagle Claw.