The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.

Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

I believe in the mystery, and I don't want to take it any further than that. Maybe what I mean by that is love.

Those who go ahead provide a little light into the unknown.

In your twenties, everything makes you crazy.

I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.

I've been very blessed to make a living in stuff I love and am totally passionate about, music and writing. So I'm eager to see what the day will bring, how I will feed that passion.

Fortunately, an extremely sexy, pixie-voiced blond named Ronnie Harran, who booked the Whisky, saw us...She had an ear for talent...the Whisky was finally a gig we could be proud of.

I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies.

I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.

Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!

Just as heart is a fountain of unspoken words, the universe is a womb of wonder weird worlds.

A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of energy in the universe. And a child who dies-that's an abomination.

Is that the longest fifth set ever? It was? So, no, I've never played one longer than that!

I'm doing something now where I'm going to have to learn so much and that takes time nurturing, those kinds of relationships.

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

If you have the power to create it, you also have the power to transform it.

Everybody who has ever read Sandman knows exactly what the Sandman looks like, which is more than anybody who has ever read The Catcher in the Rye can say about Holden Caufield.