It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

The biggest surprise with the show is I didn’t think it was gonna be that emotional. I thought it was just gonna be a regular reality show.

I mean, I kind of remember… I’m 36 now, so it’s kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period...

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn’t matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

I know many inferior guitarists who are very proud of the fact that they are as good as they are, when in fact they are only moderately good.

I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking...

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for...

I like playing on stage, don’t get me wrong.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. ‘Don’t bother us with politics’, respond those who don’t want to learn.

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don’t see that same intimacy happening very much today.

It wasn’t so much of a controlled effort to end up as part of the Goth scene.

That’s the era we grew up in. It’s weak to go to a psychiatrist.

If you take all that I’ve learned from Joe and all that Joe has learned from me, and you throw all that into a song, not only are you using the gifts that God gave...

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

I’ve always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.

I saw Suicide in ’74 and it was pretty horrifying.

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be...

Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

I didn’t know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I’d worked on and perfected.

The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you’re up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

I also told John Hammond this, 20 years later – to his exquisite embarrassment – that he was like this incredible, overwhelming influence on me.

Well, first of all, they’re all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.

I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don’t appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can...

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a...

Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to...

Around the age of 14, 15, I was in the studio, serious about it.

I’ve messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.

All I can do is leave it in God’s hands and hope that my fans feel where I’m coming from.

I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn’t saying anything.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Everybody knows what’s going on. Even if they don’t watch it they know what’s happening.

There’s so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That’s stupid. They aren’t songs about drugs; they’re about life.

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.