One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.

Yeah, the whole band is from Brooklyn.

We’ve got great fans that rock and roll won’t have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

Oddly enough, it’s what we started out as, it’s what we always have been, and it’s almost like Aerosmith is that band in the closet.

The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated...

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

It was just like Howlin’ Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.

I love making music and I’m falling in love with making records, so it’s like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.

Even though you can’t expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That’s morality, that’s religion. That’s art. That’s life.

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my...

The turning point really is just knowing you’re an imbecile.

I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

I never tried to kill myself or anything.

You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can...

Woman are complex creatures.

The Musicians was recorded as a quartet by Dinah Shore, Phil Harris, Tony Martin and Betty Hutton. It was not a hit; it came and went.

Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.

It’s pure Black Label. It’s about violence and booze. That’s all it is. There is no plan.

There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don’t discuss my private life.

I would say that I’m finding my voice in more ways than one.

There is nothing so stable as change.

I mean, I’m not unhappy, but there’s still so much I want to do.

I’m not worried. I’m just so grateful to be in the position that I’m in. I’m just going with the flow right now, and I think my album will come together quite nicely because I...

A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.

The last 16 years of my daddy’s life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.

No, I don’t like recording. It’s a bore.

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I’m still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my...

I’ve had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses.

Mary Lou is a beautiful person. She’s from my hometown, Pittsburgh. Mary Lou I love very much. She’s a very accomplished musician.

It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.

I always approach music by thinking about the person I’m playing with and listening to the way they play and trying to enhance whatever is going on.

I think I’m in a really nice position, where I’m sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one, but right now the main thing in my mind is writing songs.

For us to keep claiming this isn’t Hip Hop and that isn’t Hip Hop doesn’t make sense to me.

Beauty is less important than quality.

There wasn’t much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn’t get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of...

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

I’d just like to be treated like a regular customer.

There are too many people that depend on me. I’m too obligated. I’m in too far to get out.

I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it’s hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I...

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there’s a point where I wish that it wasn’t, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less...

The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we’d just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around...

I didn’t know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

I’m not a big fan of Women’s Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they’re due.

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.

Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not...

I’ve been compared to people since the beginning. When you’re starting out, you need a comparison so people will understand you right away.