What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of going out there and playing football.

If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.

I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

The wonder of life is heart of gratitude.

Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.

The most beautiful experiences I've had climbing are when everything is simplified. Free soloing is the simplest thing, until you learn to fly or to walk on air - which I feel is all possible.

Has every oyster a different taste?

Memory is, of course, a trickster.

God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison.

The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.

I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.

I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.