I'd rather work than not.

I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing.

My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.

When I'm with Purple, I'm totally with Purple; when I'm doing my thing, I'm totally doing my own thing.

I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.

I can't do anything but play guitar.

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.

I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.

I don't like English bands. They're too structured.

When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

When people sleep, others stay awake to effect changes in the world. Every other person wakes up in the morning to a totally different world

The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending.

Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.

As long as I'm needed. I'll be ready to serve. I look forward with optimism. We need the Jews here. Move to Israel! Move to Israel!

I'm very opinionated and I have a lot of things to say. Sometimes I sound a bit like a willy.

True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere.

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

What did she see in me? What does she see that I don't?

Real sharpness comes without effort.