Francis Ford Coppola is completely unconventional. He has a strong sense of loyalty. Great eyes. It's a diabolical undertaking in terms of organization and leadership.

You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it.

I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.

The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.

My friends think I'm ugly, I gotta masculine face.