I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.

It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.

I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music.

They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, "Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down."

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.

All you've got to do is keep your ears open.

Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

I think if two people love each other, they should be able to get married. That's pretty much simple.

In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.