But Freedom Strike was actually quite cool.

Because of time, we’ve learned that there are some things that you really have to maintain, like a normal home life; and that’s a plus.

I’m doing it by enjoying what I do in the gym, really enjoying my foods.

And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I...

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue.

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They’re intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock’n’roll fans: sensible people I wouldn’t mind having a drink with.

But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.

Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we’re lucky, it lasts… if not, then it’s in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked...

We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.

One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she’s pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you’re not even...

I don’t think about my previous success. I’m happy that the work I’ve done has been very successful.

I’m not a jazz singer.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

I’d been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn’t see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn’t know anyone.

I’ve never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure there’s enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures.

As far as the work I did with Timbaland, it was his sound and I just kinda floated in his direction. I just rapped over his traditional beats.

The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.

So, to come In with a set routine it’s something I’ve never believed in. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.

If I had been at a University I don’t think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don’t think I have been as successful.

I wanted to be the perfect artist. I’d do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I’d sign autographs after the show until everybody left.

My youngest daughter sings. She’s going to be very good. She’s graduated from Music School and she’s been working down around and getting her feet wet, you know. I had her out with me for...

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

I think we all need to be a part of the suffering and the solution. We need more humility as Americans.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

I had love for Breakout; I had love for Bambaataa. I had love for Kool Herc.

Tonight I’m going to listen with my ears.

When I got started in New York, it wasn’t like it is now. If you were different from Miles and Dizzy, it was very difficult to make gigs and make money with your own style.

Simple is the only way I can write.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ’cause they’re screaming all the time.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

Critics have their purposes, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they...

George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was...

We’re loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

Or certainly I would need time – which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film – to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these...

We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and… I worked on that.

Back then, we didn’t know we were poor, and people were more proud then.

I’ve always been full of nervous energy, but I’m not really as happy as I seem.

The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I’ve showed them a certain respect for this career.

The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is...

We never got anything out of the recordings. I’m still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.

Sometimes you forget where the heck you are but when you get on stage, you know by the look on the people’s faces and the accent in their voices where you might be.

I have a painting up in Washington, D.C. at the House of the Temple for the Scottish Rite, and those prints are selling for $250.

In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally...

I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

Success is like a high-rise building I’m on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the parking lot but I was lucky enough to have made it to the...

I’m a perfectionist. I can’t help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.

My career decisions have nothing to do with my personal life.