A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose.

Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?

You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You're on your own adventure of growth and discovery. So it's not always good to be who people think you are, especially if you subscribe to it as well ... which is easily done, because then you don't have to figure out who you are, you just ask somebody else.

Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.

I never looked at music as a serious ven­ture. There was very little encouragement from my family. I didn't have anybody to entertain, so it was hard to get motivated.