Any fool can hide, few can play.

Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.