I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll.

No one enjoys being away from friends and family.

If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented.

You can't play bass in a vacuum.

I enjoy anything to do with music.

I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.

I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan.

You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.

I don't want to produce anyone that doesn't want to be produced by me.

Obviously you take any creative people and put them in a room and you're going to get clashes, you're going to get friction.

Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it's special. Even though you can fool people, I know there are people out there who still play along to tapes.

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

Have the courage to follow your heart.

If someone hates or loves something, then right on. I can't rob them of that. I'm not going to try and change their mind. Something's been triggered in them to react so emotionally.

The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

Is this chicken what I have or is this fish? I know it's tuna. But it says chicken. By the sea.

You should always pay attentionto quality. A coffin, for instance, should laast a lifetime.

I always wish life could be a musical. One person just says 5, 6, 7, 8.

If you love the planet or the neighborhood - you're finding ways to satisfy the soul of the planet or satisfy the soul of the neighborhood.

I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.