Yeah, I’m sure there are stereotypes of Asian people.

There aren’t any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you’re just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can...

I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I’m there. But when I leave, I just start crying.

When we’re onstage, it’s like mind reading: we’re on the same page.

In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the...

In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa’s satirical lyric’s than anyone that I know of.

No one writes about the emotional things you go through.

And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn’t talk.

George Reeves was really Superman in my eyes. For him to come on the set and be there was a treat for me.

I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.

You know, I was never totally thrilled with being a Fleetwood Mac member, but surprisingly, I was having such a good time reuniting with John, Mick, and Stevie.

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for...

I’m so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.

I would never do anything just for spite.

I’ve learned from dieting and not dieting that literally the thing that works best for me is that if I think of it, I better go ahead and have it.

What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, ‘I need more hormones.’ So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce,...

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.

I mean, when it’s time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

I’m just excited to show that everything that was likable about us when we first came out is still intact, and as strong if not stronger than it was.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

For the past 32 years, I’ve done nothing outside the entertainment business. I’ve had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I’m not a good mandolin player at all.

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.

To me, when a great band is playing together, it’s amazing for me.

Andrew Wood’s death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful...

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

But it’s just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

That’s how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It’s not about marketing.

I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.

I thought the Goldmine article was real good but I do know that the discography was missing a lot of records and had some wrong information in it.

I’ve been to nudist beaches, like twice. But honestly, I just don’t want to see these people naked. Most people look better with their clothes on, and the few that don’t, look better than you,...

I like the last Scarface album a lot.

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I...

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

The way I look at it you can always get better.

I don’t want to abandon one work for the other, and I don’t think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

I’m still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.

I’d like to work on putting art programs back in schools.

It’s been pretty crazy. I’ve been in L.A. or New York or Nashville or all over the place. I got to go home for about a total of a week.