My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

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.

Kadafi is a zombie in a pillbox hat, that's what he is!

It is difficult to live without judging others. If you have to judge, then judge with love.

It's so much more than a child's story. - Matt Chandler on LIFE Today.

And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat

Vast skies in the Australian desertwaves that don't movewe slide surf glide like condors

No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Ruthless. That’s my girl.

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.