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.

The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote ’em down, and when you listen to ’em, whatever you think it’s about… THAT’S what it’s about!

For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her,...

Well, I don’t throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another...

The band’s never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.

The two best shows I ever saw, can’t pick between them – Don McLean on his own with his guitar and also – Wayne Newton in Las Vegas.

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August ’71.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That’s bad.

I have busted more hippies’ noses than all the narcs in the free world.

That’s a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

My focus is not on solving nature’s deeper mysteries. It is on using nature’s deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.

Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.

The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.

I went through seventh grade in private school. I went to private school from kindergarten to seventh grade.

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it’s like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it’ll be a hip-hop song. That’s the only music...

I taught myself to drive. I hope that the child in me never dies.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren’t really any that impacted strongly on me.

You won’t really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn’t a part of my life in the beginning.

The tours are campaigns.

There are times I can’t even figure myself out.

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It’s not a style that’s difficult to pick up. It’s purely emotive and dead easy to get a start...

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

It’s nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.

I’ve always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world… that’s motherhood.

When people screamed novelty the first time around talking about an ugly video and stuff I was really insulted because, hold on a minute, everyone you see in the video are real life.

I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.

We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record ’cause we didn’t sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the...

We started out in England with a couple of shows, and then in Berlin and then France. It was really amazing. The audiences have been wonderful.

I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some...

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.

We’re confined to a framework of music, and I feel that the words can be poetic, but I wouldn’t say poetry in the strictest sense.

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.