But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I’m sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the...

And I’ll tell you something, man, usually our sets are 45 minutes, maybe do an encore or two, maybe tops we’ll play for an hour.

My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there’s a challenge, go for it. If there’s a wall to break down, break it down.

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn’t worth much any more.

It’s something that – jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don’t care where you’re from, what you are, what background you come from – there’s something...

Love is the reason you were born.

We can’t thank Dave enough. He could call me if my wife was about to have a baby and tell me he needed tonight for his show and I’d find some way to get her...

I’ve always been an avid reader. If I don’t have a book in the car, I’ll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don’t even remember learning to read.

I’ve saved every dime I’ve made in my life.

It’s a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else’s taste.

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won’t bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and...

Having felt people’s love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it’s our responsibility to help one another.

We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.

I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to...

And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don’t really take it as any slight that I wasn’t able to play on the record. It’s...

I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I’m writing new...

I don’t like to talk about things where you’re going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

I really live a simple life and don’t need very much to feel good and happy. Don’t get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it.

I had met Arthur in the 60’s when I was with the Mothers and had become good friends. He had moved to Austin because his wife was from there.

I can’t take days off and play like I did last night. Maybe some people can, but I can’t.

I’m always thinking about the next record. I’ve got like 20 different themes and then I’ll scratch the themes. It’s a learning process.

I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now.

After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a...

This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted.

I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music.

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis’ birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

I know what it takes to put on a good show for the fans.

I don’t think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren’t poor. Everything was very...

Little things in my past that I really thought were over and done with were still elements of the puzzle that weren’t pieced together, and so she helped me do that.

On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that’s it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older...

This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I’ll never run out of subjects for songs.

So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

When you turn on your radio, you don’t always want to hear about someone shootin’ some person. Even if that’s the lifestyle they live, people don’t always want to hear it.

I mean, I think about it, but I don’t design my record to get a certain public response.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

In the music I was composing I was trying to express my emotions, my so called negative emotions, which were depression, anger and so forth.

I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I’d cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.

I’m not a partygoer.

I live in the middle of the mountains in Aspen Colorado, I have the tractor on my ranch. Right out my door is thousands of acres of national forest.

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

Kurt and I weren’t the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

It’s getting popular now with the younger kids with Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails, so maybe we’re just around at the right time.

The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place...

It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.