I never did heroin, because I thought that meant I was doing heavy drugs, which shows you the insanity of doing drugs. I probably should have done heroin, because I understand heroin actually makes you feel good. Cocaine just makes you stupid.

I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.

I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of.

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals