Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.

If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.

The power of music just kinda kills all those ills; it cures everything and you’ve got more energy just from the music. And, I’ve never seen it fail. It’s good for ya; real good for ya.

Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground, and maybe you'll live to tell the story.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

Music is the language of heaven.

A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.

The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.

Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.

But one day you're going to wake up to the smell of a friend making burnt toast and warm coffee, and you're going to smile with relief knowing you made it. Knowing somebody found ways to love you.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.

Learn all there is to learn, and then choose your own path.

A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general.

As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

When we hate someone we make them more powerfull than they are.

An amicable divorce is like a ventilated condom; it just doesn't work.

Design acknowledges change. Its meaning encompasses change in our times. To design is to 'create order and to function according to a plan.' The notion of change and design move along the same path.