Yeah, I don’t like, um, I’m not interested in rock ‘n’ roll piano. I find it a little grating.

You used to be the best to make life be real to me,and I hope that you’re still out there and you’re like you used to be

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.

You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.

Enjoy every sandwich.

My memory is not even what most people’s is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

I don’t learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

I’ll sleep when I’m dead.

So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

I’m not a big jazz fan.

Dylan can do no wrong.

And I think it’s safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

The primary one being, like I said, I don’t like rock ‘n’ roll piano.

I mean, I haven’t been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn’t pay attention to that period of music, obviously.

But I can’t say that I didn’t like John Hammond’s performances often better than the originals.

Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn’t pay off.

Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.

Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.

It took me 10 years to realize that I don’t know ’em, 10 years to realize that it’s possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.

This is a song my dad wrote in the late ’60s that I discovered in a box of reel-to-reel tapes that were sitting in a storage bin, … I’ve had the sheet music for years,...

I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That’s how I saw him.

I wish I sang better.

But there’s a thin line between songwriting and arranging.

Send lawyers, guns and money, the shit has hit the fan.

Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.

That’s my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

Poor Poor Pitiful Me.

Piano is like drudgery.

I don’t like piano solos.

My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.

I also told John Hammond this, 20 years later – to his exquisite embarrassment – that he was like this incredible, overwhelming influence on me.

Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

Dylan doesn’t have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.

The first few albums I bought, I guess around high school age, I had a John Lee Hooker album and a Bo Diddley album, and then some singles.

Well, I don’t think it ever did, but in the early ’60s I got interested in folk music.

We buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them.[Inside Out (VH1)]

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

I have no guitar technique.