Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape recorder.

It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band could be or what a song could be.

I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and stuff like that.

It sounds a little cliché, but I wanted to capture some of the feelings or sounds that I heard when I listened to music that actually took me places.

A lot of the bands I loved, I didn't know where they came from or where they were going.

I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just write around that.

I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long time. So I'm trying to pick it back up.

No matter how much you know, your destiny depends on the Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding you display.

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

I think my interest gets sparked when I recognize a memory. That is when I take a picture.

I have a habit of recording records very quickly - and not in a haphazardly way, not in a way where I'm not focused on details, because I'm a freak when it comes to that.

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack.

It was cool at the rock camp - girls could just be themselves and they could be silly, they could roll around on the floor playing guitar.

Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.

I feel like women, especially in music, aren't really given as much respect as men. Sexism really exists.

Marketers need to spend less time making promises and more time keeping them.