It’s stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they’re just human beings.
It’s all very hazy to me now. I’m glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half.
That’s a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.
The person who builds a character makes foes.
Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow, the drummer relaxes in between shows with his cinnamon girl.
And you can’t get away from a mirror if you stand in front of it all the time, right. But if you step away from it, you don’t notice it any more. And that’s what the stage is like for me. See, an image becomes meaningless in as much as it’s always temporary.
Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can’t describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.
I always try to get behind the guy steering the ship. That’s the kind of guy I am.
I don’t know if I’ll find the cinnamon girl. I think I already did, but I’m still singing, who knows.
I want to be a reflection of what’s going on and let people draw their own conclusions.
People don’t normally change when things are going well. But I want to see what’s next and keep moving. That keeps things fresh.
The Arabic states have to be integrated into the Iraqi reconstruction. We need the help of the Arabic community, which understands its culture. Americans arrive, invade, occupy.
The politics, I don’t understand it, I’m not happy, don’t feel good about it.
The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out, that is the endgame.
There were some things Reagan liked that I liked. The main component was that people have to talk to each other and help themselves.
We don’t build a record. We’re taking a picture of it. We’re not building an image; we’re capturing an image.
We have to understand that people are different. I don’t know, if we really understand who we’re dealing with over there.
We’re very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we’ve learned.
You know how the press is: If I mention one mistake, that’s the only thing that bothers me unless I mention all the other ones.
I’m not into organized religion. I’m into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we’re all just part of nature.