I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.

It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.

I never really followed grunge.

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

Religion is what gives a person hope to keep walking even in the darkest times.

Stories are the thing which shapes our kinky and wicked minds.

O Lord let me not live to be useless!

I did that thing where you scratch your eyebrow and flip someone off at the same time. I'm good at multitasking like that.

We support the security of both Israel and her neighbors.

That which is evil is soon learned.

I don't believe too much in originality... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art.

Learn to share your love with others, but keep part of this love for yourself

To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.