I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.

I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.

Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.

Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

You can't make a mistake when you improvise.

The whole process of working with Steven [Sebring] and being filmed by him helped me psychologically to get my feet back on the ground.

We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity.