“It's really good to be here and as I always say, it's really good to be anywhere!”

“There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.”

“You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it.”

“But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?”

“Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal”

“I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?”

“One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience”