I'm An Unpure Purist, Something Like That.

A Painter's Got A Canvas. The Writer's Got Reams Of Empty Paper. A Musician Has Silence.

Most Guys I Know Are Assholes. I Have Some Great Asshole Friends, But That's Not The Point. Friendship Has Got Nothing To Do With That. It's Can You Hang, Can You Talk About This Without Any Feeling Of Distance Between You? Friendship Is The Diminishing Of Distance Between People. That's What Friendship Is, And To Me It's One Of The Most Important Things In The World.

[john] Belushi Was An Extreme Experience Even By My Standards.

I Consider My Job [being A Musician] Is To Have A Little Idea And Nurture It And Put It In Some Form That Everybody Else Can Understand And Then Sort Of Pass It On. It's Really A Passing Through. In Other Words, You Receive And You Transmit.

To Me, It's Important To Prove That This Isn't Just Teenage Kids' S**t And You Should Feel Embarrassed When You're Over Forty And Still Doing It.