We completed and released “No Code” in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.

Playing “bop” is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.

I’m working still a bit on Lisa Loeb’s new record, and that’s going to be a great record when it finally gets a chance to come out.

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it’s the film that’s appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it’s not from classical music.

It’s hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like – It’s never been a factor in...

It was really amazing. I mean, he’d never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.

I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.

I’m doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It’s very important to me – and I feel it should be for every living human...

If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That’s a home run for me.

And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that, you know. But I knew that, ’cause I’d do that in school, but...

My strategy has always been to give people just enough of me, then pull back. That way, they’ll want more.

But I don’t use a pick onstage at all.

When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.

You know, I’m an eagle, flying around in the mountains.

Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.

I use my cell phone as much as I can-I talk to friends all the time. I’m like 2,000 hours a month. It’s crazy.

This is a physical thing that is fixable. I know, I’m a survivor. Believe me, there was no way I thought I could survive. There are answers out there that need to be found.

I do like to write nasty songs. It’s a useful weapon to have, and it’s cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don’t mind going through a little bush to get there!

When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

I got a mother who’s very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

I’m very cerebral. I like to think things through.

Because as an only child, you have your own little world.

I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.

I’m like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

Most of us don’t spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough – you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.

Yeah, the whole band is from Brooklyn.

We’ve got great fans that rock and roll won’t have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

Oddly enough, it’s what we started out as, it’s what we always have been, and it’s almost like Aerosmith is that band in the closet.

The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated...

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

It was just like Howlin’ Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.

I think I’m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it’s authority that I respect.

Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I’m going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I’d scare you.

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize – yours, not anybody else’s.

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

A man is a God in ruins.

I’m not a goody-two-shoes. I’m just a father with four children.

I do not like onions. It’s so funny because I am probably one of the least picky eaters ever. Pretty much any type of new food, I’ll try it, I’ll eat it. But onions, and...

So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you’re talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50...

I summoned my courage and auditioned for a choir job in a Catholic Church and landed a job there. It paid about thirty dollars a month.

I don’t meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.