People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.
I kind of like being depressed.
I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix.
Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.
Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!
Each song, you're telling a story and acting.
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.
Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.
Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.
I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.
Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.
Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.
If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.
To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!
It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.
I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.
All of my stuff is raw, it's emotive, it's real.
But my big thing was always the blues.
