I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.

I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused.

You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.

Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.

When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.

We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today, sometimes I'll hear our records and I'm not really sure who played what. And we took a bunch of acid together too.

When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.

It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.

But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.

Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.

If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole nightclub culture where bands could work.

As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.

Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.

I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.

When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

You can only do the work to the very best of your ability.

A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.

We live because of the dreams.

Catch-22's admirers cross boundaries - ideological, generational, geographical.

Mubarak would meet with me when I was at Central Command. He would lean and put his hand on my knee, as if a father figure, and say, 'General, don't ever forget the Arab Street. Listen to the Arab Street.' I'd like to go to him now and say, 'Mr. President, what about that Arab Street, what's that all about?'

I grew up in an underprivileged home.

There's nothing I love more than a good cry.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

The day runs through me as water through a sieve.

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

I love good food. I'm an epicurean, that's for sure... But I am not really a good cook.

Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station but to the mind and the feelings in every station.

If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it!

The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news.

Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.

I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from work, cook dinner for my father and me.