I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.

The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.

I do dig the White Stripes. I like the record they have out now.

The market didn't define the music the music defined the market.

Even if we all want you here, you don't belong until you decide you do.

The miserable have no medicine but hope.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

I believe if you want to build up to something, you have to start somewhere - you have to start today and maybe tomorrow won't exist.

We must lose what we think we know so that we can come to see what we least expect.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

When you write about esoteric things, it can be way out there.

There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write well than it is to take out the garbage.

Let me insist and emphasise it because I would like all of my sannyasins to be creative in some way. To me, creativity is of tremendous import. An uncreative person is not a religious person at all.