Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.

I was like one of the boys in school who flap their legs frantically under the desk. I always had this weird feeling between my legs and I had no idea what it was. I didn't know girls masturbated. I never touched myself or anything.

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.

I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is to do the best work I possibly can. And that is what means the most, that is what will endure.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like.

I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.