I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.

I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.

You don't want to OD on improvisation.

Toyland, toyland . . . once you pass its portals you may never return again.

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.

Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

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.