But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out...

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

I met up with Art Blakey in 1963, I think. It was right after Lee Morgan left and I played with him for about two and a half years.

We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don’t know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I...

I don’t think it’s good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.

It’s hard for us not to be involved with things. When you have so much information and you see so much need, there’s too much going on for us not to get involved.

In fact, musicianship is at an all time low, so anybody who’s actually good at their instrument is probably unpopular at this particular moment.

I’ll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I’ll go back and fill it out. Whereas, in other pieces I’m really just going a couple bars at...

It’s not like that often, I mean, I suppose out of a ratio of 10 fans maybe like 1 or 2 of ’em might be Asian, and maybe every second or third time they might...

It’s just something I’ve always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.

I refuse to be pushed around anymore.

We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

I wish I could sing. I love singers, but I am way too shy. Scares the hell out of me.

I’ve been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.

If you put the right things out there the right things will happen.

And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy.

I’m trying to forget how much that cost, but I just had to have them.

Confounding people’s expectations was a way to maintain integrity.

Working with the band, you’re in a room with three other people and you’re more verbal. It requires the other side of the brain.

And it’s not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done.

Don’t let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

I used to think I actually was Batman.

I want to work on some more complicated baking… and it would be interactive!

This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that’s where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself.

I’m just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy.

Show business is made up of disappointments, and it’s through life’s disappointments that you grow.

The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.

It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here’s your CD that’s going into stores, here’s your EP that you offer online, here’s a subscription...

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.

I’m much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.

So what are we given? We’re also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.

I partly agree with the underlying message that people should take charge and solve problems, rather than just cast blame on others.

Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that’s already high level. Those three are...

At one point, I didn’t get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me...

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

I don’t really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

Aledo will always be home to me because I spent the first 27 years of my life there – it’s such a special place – and because of the experiences I had there, I’ve become...

I still had some honor… I still have some now.

I’ll probably be punished for hard living.

If the ride is more fly, then you must buy.

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.

Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do...