There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians and artists] to do these things, they have to fund them. They have to have something to pay the rent.

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.

We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing.

The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect