Everyone has gifts; everyone can contribute.
We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.
I never have any trouble playing anything I can think of. The trouble is in thinking of what to play.
Hearing myself so much all the time, I don't think I sound that special all the time because it's me.
I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.
Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.
I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.
A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.
Combat isn't where you might die -- though that does happen -- it's where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don't underestimate the power of that revelation. Don't underestimate the things young men will wager in order to play that game one more time.
I still follow that model: just go hard every day, and take it one step at a time.
The next time you feel rejection's sting, remember God's words to Samuel: "It is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me. " (1 Sam. 8:7)