“The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That’s cool.”

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love

Don’t let your imagination take you by surprise.

Anybody can do anything, it’s up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.

Now if I don’t meet you no more in this world, then I’ll, I’ll meet you in the next one, and don’t be late, don’t be late, cause I’m a voodoo chile.

I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.

When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

I’m gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.

Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. Throw away all that mixed up speed.

I wouldn’t say that I’m the greatest guitarist ever. I’d say probably that I’m the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.

May I love you away from the evils of today to the dreams of tomorrow, you know heaven has no sorrow.

So you want to be married, oh baby, trying to put me on a chain, ain’t that some shame? You must be losing your weak little mind.

If I live by illusions, you live by excuses.

You’ve got to know much more than the mere technicalities of notes. You’ve got to know sounds and what goes between the notes.

I want to thank you my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up.

The artist in me cries out for design.

I am an artist, not a politician.

As an artist, it’s never really enough. You always want to strive to get bigger and better and push the limits of what you can actually do.

Artists are here to disturb the peace.

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

The word ‘artist’ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Artistically, you want to be able to do a lot of things that can challenge you to not just stay in the same thing.