Why Would You Want To Be Anything

My Father. I Snorted My Father. He Was Cremated And I Couldn't Resist Grinding Him Up With A Little Bit Of Blow.

We All Have Our Own Personal Laboratories. Life Is An Experiment, And It's Just A Matter Of Getting The Alchemical Or Chemical Combination Right.

What Is It That Makes You Want To Write Songs? In A Way You Want To Stretch Yourself Into Other People’s Hearts. You Want To Plant Yourself There, Or At Least Get A Resonance, Where Other People Become A Bigger Instrument Than The One You’re Playing. It Becomes Almost An Obsession To Touch Other People. To Write A Song That Is Remembered And Taken To Heart Is A Connection, A Touching Of Bases. A Thread That Runs Through All Of Us. A Stab To The Heart. Sometimes I Think Songwriting Is About Tightening The Heartstrings As Much As Possible Without Bringing On A Heart Attack.

One Minute I'm Standing At Ronnie Scott's Getting A Standing Ovation And The Next Minute, I'm On A Marble Slab

The Only New Technology That Interests Me Is When It Sort Of Throws Me Back Soundwise. And I Can Think, "wow, That Means I Can Go Onstage And Sound Like Scotty Moore Now And Again!"