When I want to play music, you've got to get me on tape or else it goes.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

We are all very lucky to live in a world where there is this much music.

Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good.

I'm not much of a club goer because every time I do go I get in trouble.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

To play the guitar well is easy, to play the guitar poorly is difficult.

I'm a normal person. I don't see where people come off saying I'm crazy.

I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.

But it has been a long process because I'm kind of a renaissance person.

I like sleeping at the minute, I don't really get the chance to do that.

Brendon's more of a Peter Gabriel fan, and I'm more of a Ray Davies fan.

Right before I moved out to San Francisco, I played in Buddy Guy's band.

My baby she's a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.

Be a voice for the voiceless y'all. This world needs more love and hope!

I wasn't very big on going to school. I tried to get a gig as a luthier.

Carvin Jones is one of the brightest young stars on the blues scene today

Straight up, I'm from Waldorf, Maryland, you guys. Let's not forget that.

Lord, spit on our eyes that we may see, how to wake up from this tragedy.

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.

Every season can be allergy season, depending on what you're allergic to.

There is no love left in your eyes, there is no love between your thighs.

CSNY is a little like putting seven pounds of stuff in a three pound bag.

I'll never die. I'll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.

It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying

To pay attention to flattery or criticism is a waste of time for artists.

You realize as you get older that tomorrow is not guaranteed for anybody.

My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

Definitely an important aspect of my playing is keeping my hands in sync.

I'm a blues guy and I listen to blues all the time and blues is timeless.

The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.

But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals

But you know, I still had a dream of being able to go back home and tour.

I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.

I keep on calling them records because they will always be records to me.

There has to be a real strong reason to do something with someone for me.

Zeppelin were a blues band but [also] so much more, [as were] The Stones.

I like the guys in Cheap Trick. I like playing in it and the music we do.

I always thought of myself as more of a rhythm player than a big soloist.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

When you're young, you can burn the candle at both ends, and you're fine.

It is never too late to be who you might have been. It is always possible

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