I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.

I'm a bit of a vagabond - a person who loses time and space because you don't know where you are.

Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious.

For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it.

I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.

I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another guitar hero.

I have the weirdest job. It's not every day that you get to stand up onstage and unload every ounce of your misanthropic bile onto a crowd of people, and they're like, "Cool! Hit us again!"

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record.

I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.

I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.

I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.

I wish there were easy answers to people's health questions. There aren't. There are answers, all right, but they are not easy.

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

The law doesn't create a right.

I kept talking to my producers at Columbia about recording one of those [prison] shows. So we went into Folsom on February 11, 1968, and recorded a show live.

Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of an expanding economy.

My ultimate style icon is Grace Jones.

Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water.

It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.