My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.

I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.

There's always been an incredible amount of junk music, and junk everything. Marshall McLuhan said that a medium surrounds a previous medium, and turns the previous medium into an art form. So, what was once a junk culture, like film, television surrounded it and turned it into an art form.

Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed on the altar of technological advancement.

Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.