I tried to give up drugs by drinking.
Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that’s what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let’s just club them to death, and get it over with.
I can’t do anything I want to. I mean, I can’t have my own TV show. I can’t have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.
I’m an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.
I am bigger and stronger than ever. My Chen Taiji and health regimen has served me well all of these years, thanks to Master Ren Guang-yi. I look forward to being on stage performing, and writing more songs to connect with your hearts and spirits and the universe well into the future.
The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.
All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn’t lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.
Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.
They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.
You can’t always trust your mother.
The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?
And no kinds of love are better than others.
There’s only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It’s your time.
I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.
Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.
I don’t believe in dressing up reality. I don’t believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.
If it has more than three chords, it’s jazz.
I can create a vibe without saying anything, just by being in the room.
It’s depressing when you’re still around and your albums are out of print.