No one enjoys being away from friends and family.

I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll.

If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented.

You can't play bass in a vacuum.

I enjoy anything to do with music.

I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.

I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan.

You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.

I don't want to produce anyone that doesn't want to be produced by me.

Obviously you take any creative people and put them in a room and you're going to get clashes, you're going to get friction.

Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it's special. Even though you can fool people, I know there are people out there who still play along to tapes.

We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.

Failure is a friend if we can see past the face of the foe that we project on it.

Make an impact ..make a substantial impact !''-Dalia Qutob

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow

I was born and raised in the Bay Area. It's the place I got a deep, deep affection for.

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

People would pull the rug out from under me. So I learnt how to dance on a moving carpet.

I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words!

There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record