“Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.”

“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.”

“When you’re creating your own shit, man, even the sky ain’t the limit.”

“Do not fear mistakes - there are none. ”