If I had a ghost living on my street. I would try to stay alive, and offer him some meat!

I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.

Swing will never sound as good as it did in the '40s.

Music is a spiritual expression of what's in your heart. Music as a way of getting rich is a pretty new thing, and I often wonder if the mega-bucks glitzy atmosphere is making the quality of music suffer. You have to work really hard to get around that and remember why you're in it in the first place: because you have to be. It's like an addiction. You can't go a day without picking up your guitar. To me, the only commercial goals that are really valid are, 'Boy, I wish I didn't have to go to work. I wish I could do this all the time.'

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

My life was a complete catatrophe. I was very, very sick from drugs and alcohol.

I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.