I've long ago learned that if an idea will stand on its own, it'll stand having the light shone on it. But if you shine light on it and it kind of withers, then it probably wasn't a very good idea.

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

No, but I've always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don't take my fans for granted.

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

Long as I remember, rain been comin' down; Clouds of mystery fallin', confusion on the ground; Good men through the ages, trying to find the sun; And I wonder, still I wonder: Who will stop the rain?

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

You evil thing, why do you haunt me?

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

There's a bad moon on the rise.

I ain't got no time for a Caribbean cruise, just give me a song and a beer.

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.

Without love, life will be a great mistake.

He's throwing everything he can into the air on the chance that something might take flight. And we're the smallest, weakest bird.

Journeyman stared at Grimm as though Grimm had just suggested that the engineer should prostitute his mother to pirates.

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.

A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.

All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves.

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.