The Beatles tried to do some tours and found it to be completely pointless and became a non-touring band after that, and with very good reason.

Music should never be harmless.

It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable...Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass...Music should never be harmless.

Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll.

When you make a record, your own record, and you don't even recognize it yourself, it's hard to think if anybody else is going to recognize.

The rock concert experience for people was really pretty stupid, you know, at the time. People would go to concerts not with the idea of listening at all.

While I was there, I was just gathering images and names, and ideas and rhythms, and I was storing all of these things - which I didn't realize I was doing - but I was storing them all in an attic in my mind somewhere. And when it was time to sit down and write songs, when I reached into the attic to see what I was gonna write about, that's what was there.