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.

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.

Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations, acquisitive ideologies of wealth, a deeply rooted class system and policies which serve privilege in the short term and destroy society in the long term.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.

I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything