The rock concert experience for people was really pretty stupid, you know, at the time. People would go to concerts not with the idea of listening at all.

You fog the mind, you stir the soul.

You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.

Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.

We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.

Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.

Boy, do I got some stories to tell.

I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'

Dream big as you can and shoot for the stars, but get started even if its small baby steps, they count!

Thus, on a functional level, your meditation triggers the corresponding neurobiological networks that are responsible for eliciting health effects.

All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.

There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.