“I’m not sure if he’ll end up as the permanent guitar player, but he’s the type of guy who can kind of step in and play anything.”

I think ultimately what you really want is a few people within any label that are into the band enough to really work on it every day for a long time and to actually try a little bit.

But obviously, the major labels have more money to spend, so if they feel like spending it, they have bigger resources there when you need them.

I don’t know that it was much better thirty years ago. The music industry just wasn’t as efficient.

The music industry was more oddball guys who did it for fun and now they are huge corporations that have become more structured.

Yeah, Jody [Porter] left. He’s a great guitar player.

He was with the Gigolo Ants before, and he’s really good.

I don’t know if there was really ever a golden age of the music business.

It doesn’t always necessarily translate into them doing a better job for a band, but I think especially if you’re playing the game of commercial radio and making videos and stuff like that, that’s sort of an expensive proposition.

Most of what was released has always been garbage and some has been able to get through and last.

We have a guy named Phil Hurley who is going to go out on tour with us now.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don’t know anything you don’t need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.

And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.

Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you’re doing something.

Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.

Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.