“Do not fear mistakes - there are none. ”

“I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me “a legend”.(…) A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.”

“My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”

“Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.”

“I remember one time - it might have been a couple times - at the Fillmore East in 1970, I was opening for this sorry-ass cat named Steve Miller. Steve Miller didn't have his shit going for him, so I'm pissed because I got to open for this non-playing motherfucker just because he had one or two sorry-ass records out. So I would come late and he would have to go on first and then we got there we smoked the motherfucking place, everybody dug it.”

“Don't play what's there; play what's not there.”

“Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.”