In 1974, when I started working with the material that became Horses, a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

No one knows how powerful technology is.

Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art.

You can't make a mistake when you improvise.

Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.

I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.