“The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric’s vocals.”

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

Everybody’s going through changes. No one knows what’s going on.

It’s silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.

Classical music’s ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I’m careful to phrase them with the guitar.

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

I think it’s like everything else; one shouldn’t dig too deeply.

Which is understandable if you’re the producer, but aggravating if you’re the artist.

Everybody changes places, but the world still carries on.

There’s never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make it accessible for the mass market.

Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats.

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

It won’t be decided in one election, but it is a basic choice between an open and progressive Iraq and one that is backward and continues to fall behind.

I’m not just talking about what you put on a record – even just walking into a store and how you interact with the person behind the checkout counter.

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show.

I guess my feeling is that if you’re going to make a joke, that’s fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you’re trying to make.

They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.

Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water.