Dance is the only thing that lets you lose yourself and find yourself at the same time.

Rock is very, very important and very, very ridiculous.

It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.

Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around

Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world.