Once you feel that you've learned some skills and you know how to make records, the next thing is, "Do we ever get to make one that people will really like?" Because then we'll have something to do.

All the money in the world is spent on feeling good.

Something has to happen between you and the public, some interface that lets the public in on what you're doing.

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

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

Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on.

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.