Music's for grooving man, and music's not for puttin' yourself through bad changes, y'know? I mean, you don't have to go take anybody's shit, man, just to like music, y'know what I mean? You don't. So... so if you're getting' more shit than you deserve, you know what to do about it man. Y'know, it's just music. Music's... music's s'posed to be different than that.

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery.

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

Rap is not music, it's talking.

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.