All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.
I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.
I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.
I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.
Live music is better.
The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
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.
It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.
I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.
Rock and roll is here to stay.
The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.
I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.
I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
It's cool to go places where working people are happy.
