And I said, ‘Why not? It’s the truth! Why can’t I say I’m a Beatles fan?’ I used to get criticized for that.

I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it’s needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don’t think it’s necessary to play that...

But I’m a historian. I wasn’t interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I’m a young woman, and I ain’t done runnin’ around.

I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.

I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.

I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.

At first I didn’t dig country.

Disco B still rolls with me now. He’s still doing his thing. He does clubs in different places. He was very instrumental in helping me perfect my craft.

If you don’t have it in your part, leave it out, because there is enough missing already.

I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me...

I was upset with Delbert, because there he was going again and pushing me out in front, without asking me.

I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

That’s why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I’m always the last one to leave.

After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack’s Car, but that didn’t last.

Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That’s the bottom line.

People from Farm Aid have approached us about shows. We’d never done it. So part of my pitch to the band is that this IS farm aid.

All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there’s no one for you, But here is one.

In some types of music I’m working out all the chords one bar at a time – the whole structure, because it’s about that. And there are other pieces which are really about – okay,...

I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like… the band I’ve signed on to our label right now; they’re called The Sounds. They’re kind of like a...

Well, Darrell is a stunning musician. I mean, he plays anything. The only thing I’ve never heard him play is a fiddle, and I bet he could.

I was married when I wasn’t quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.

I think there’s always a call for people who are bucking the norm. But I don’t expect it to happen now because I think that more than ever the entertainment industry is trying to serve...

It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.

The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really quick and that wasn’t what we were about on an organic...

And you know, we’d go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there’d be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music.

I would rather have played a character like Opie than Little Ricky.

I had to seal off my feelings about Stevie while seeing her every day and having to help her, too. But you get on with it. What was happening to the band was much bigger...

My parents were extremely generous. The people they would get to work for them might not have regular bathing habits, but they’d be good at wearing masking tape on their nipples.

For the second album I look forward to doing a lot of serious collaboration and taking the experiences I’ve had over this last year, good and bad, and working it into the album.

I’ve been a rock star since you were very young. But I’ve never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.

I’m not in this for the money because if I was, I would have jumped out after our first album.

One of the things that’s influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that...

You just need to be honest with how you’re feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, ‘Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They’re gonna call me...

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

I didn’t really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

They’ve gone to great length to disguise the fact that I’m not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the...

I didn’t even apply. There was no warning.

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there’s some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that’s really important to us, and music is all we’ve really...

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

No, I majored in biology, in a pre-med program.

In the last two years or so, I’ve made a conscious decision to play American guitars; I don’t know of a more subtle way to say it.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

If you look over the years, the styles have changed – the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look...

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won’t lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.

All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world.

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he’s really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.