Simple is the only way I can write.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ’cause they’re screaming all the time.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

Critics have their purposes, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they...

George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was...

We’re loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

Or certainly I would need time – which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film – to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these...

We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and… I worked on that.

Back then, we didn’t know we were poor, and people were more proud then.

I’ve always been full of nervous energy, but I’m not really as happy as I seem.

The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I’ve showed them a certain respect for this career.

The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is...

We never got anything out of the recordings. I’m still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.

Sometimes you forget where the heck you are but when you get on stage, you know by the look on the people’s faces and the accent in their voices where you might be.

I have a painting up in Washington, D.C. at the House of the Temple for the Scottish Rite, and those prints are selling for $250.

In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally...

I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

Success is like a high-rise building I’m on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the parking lot but I was lucky enough to have made it to the...

I’m a perfectionist. I can’t help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.

My career decisions have nothing to do with my personal life.

What I do and what I record only work for the moment.

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don’t think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

I still think Keith Richards is great.

I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote – not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you...

Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

Now everybody’s sampling.

I just don’t fit into the box.

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.

Oh, 1962. The music scene was so bad that several of us decided to come out to Berkeley and take over the folk music scene here.

I don’t know that all the demons have been beaten, but I’m very, very proud of those songs.

Washburn’s an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.

I grew up in Pennsylvania, only fifteen miles away from Daryl where all the local kids with a German background looked like he did.

Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn’t afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing.

I think it’s just a lack of ability, we’re incapable of writing hits.

It’s so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn’t really know anything about at the time. Later on I’m starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

I’m really just a country boy.

I have recorded nine tracks for a new album which I financed myself and am looking for a home for.

I’m definitely not ready to move into something else. I’m having so much fun.

I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.

What I learned in jail is that I can’t change. I can’t live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed – like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it’s important that we use that voice wisely.

Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.

Missing Persons was based in Los Angeles.

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.

Today, they’re just up there for the money, just packaged and be gone.