I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.
If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.
When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
I've crashed my car three times.
I don't know why people thought I was retiring.
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
It feels great to have a #1 album.
The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.