You never know what's going to happen sometimes, or what you think's going to happen never happens, or when you least expect it, the Santana record comes along and just blows up.

I got it: stay away from cocaine and heroin.

But you know what I'm trying to say, it's that there's a couple of really dangerous drugs out there and I've lost some friends to them.

I don't really put too much emphasis on what somebody else might think of it. Otherwise your putting limits on yourself.

No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.

I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.