If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.

I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

I want my permanent address to be in Oklahoma. Someday, when I get married and I have kids, that’s where I want to raise my kids.

A friend is not only someone who you can confide in, it is someone who can mirror the trust you have shown by confiding in you as well.

Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You don’t have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody...

I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this...

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don’t consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

If I were gay, life would be a lot simpler. I’m kind of annoyed that I’m not.

The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else...

I’m gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.

I’ve been getting some bad publicity – but you got to expect that.

The music now is about my personal life, where I’m at as a 24-year-old young woman, so it’s very honest and it’s very pure and it’s very emotional.

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It’s the reverse of the West.

Traditionally, songwriters can’t sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you’re going to go water later in the score....

Zen, per se, is not just an art, it’s not just a religion, it’s a realisation.

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

Mommy smoked but she didn’t want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

Being as versatile as I am, I take offense to the notion that no serious musician would not be doing a late night talk show gig. One has to be open enough in other areas...

Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding.

I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.

Getting on stage is a bonus, that’s my therapy, that’s when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

Or in the early days we didn’t have the bus, we had a station wagon.

I’m in this business because I despise honest labor.

It’s really touching that we can come back after so long and care about making an album that says as much as this one does. And after all this time, we really do care about...

To the extent that ’60s guys own things, yes… but I don’t have the publishing, just like most ’60s guys, and that was an error, you know… part ownership in publishing was the kind of...

When you have a very hot single there is no reason why it can’t drive album sales. People fall off and come back on. I’m looking forward to coming back on with a vengeance.

As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.

The best part about being with a group is that you don’t have to do everything alone. You’re with your friends.

You know, you don’t work 30 something years in this business without knowing how to push yourself. So, I just kept pushing myself and pushing myself. The other thing that happens is when your hormones...

I’m not doing this to be a pop star. I’ve had plenty of money and attention. I’m doing it for credibility.

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

I’ve been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

I feel blessed and I’ve learned so much. I just wanted to make a record where people can forget their troubles and go buck-wild.

I’m not a person that’s walkin’ down the street looking mean all day.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn’t really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn’t control them as easily.

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

The day that I ever become hip… please shoot me and put me outta my misery!