I like my time on earth. And no matter what kind of cards I've been dealt, I'm happy to be there.

We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.

Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment, are sometimes wonderful, or wonderful as a moment to be shared between performer and people, but that's it. There might be a strong bond between you and the people, a transformative night, but as a live record it might not translate.

Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.

He dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a circle and play and play. It didn't matter what key or tempo or what melody, they would keep on playing through their discordance until they found a common language.

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.