You have to be around people you trust; otherwise you can't do anything - you're afraid, you're paranoid, and you can't do any work.

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and was then played loud but with traditional grace and intelligence

Needless to say, you've got to have someone who can speak for you.

Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.

Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals to them beyond just the notes. For a record to be memorable and great, it has to have something of this quality. Exactly what that is, I don't know, but I think it has something to do with an atmosphere, an environment that is appealing and attractive. And the people that inhabit this environment have... almost a message for the rest of the world.

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.