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.

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

I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.

If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.

You can make records from now 'til doomsday, and there are something like 50,000 records released every year, but the public gets to hear very few of these. They just won't know. They might be great records, but how in the world is the public supposed to find out about them?

You should try to do something if you think you can see your way clear.

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