Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

The Doors really were a band of potheads.

One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.

We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back into the dressing room and passed out cold.

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.

I think I'm a very poor piano player.