I always try to get behind the guy steering the ship. That's the kind of guy I am.

Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.

I think the ultimate result of it is you can get inside the record.

Listen to your own voice. Don't listen to someone else's. To me the way to live is to always move forward - to keep searching for whatever it is that interests you.

I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman.

Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.