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

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.

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.

I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.

Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.

Applying sunscreen became a habit that now I use in my daily life.

literature is the last banquet between minds.

I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row.

Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.

While prosperity is in some ways related to money, it is not caused by money.

I found my happy place the minute I saw you

Got my fungal foot powder? Ah, it's a lifesaver, you know. I'd effectively be disabled if it weren't for these.

The Central Bank is constantly purchasing, purchasing and selling and vice versa - this is their job.

The real satisfaction from mathematics is in learning from others and sharing with others.