I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later on.

They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.

So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.

I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.

If I could bottle the benefits of a healthy lifestyle in a pill, it would become a blockbuster drug.

Don't be agnostic - be something.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."

In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never stand amid the shocks of life.

It won't hurt you. It's just to kill plants. It's called Agent Orange...and it won't bother humans.

We Love Water. We Thank Water. We Respect Water. We Are All Water. We Are All One.

Girl, it's an umbrella, not a Lamborghini.