Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

When I die, just keep playing the records.

We have time, there's no big rush.

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

You have to give people something to dream on.

My nature just changes.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.

I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.

You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.

When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.

See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.