I've been around the block a couple of times, and the guy I am now is the guy I like to be.
Rock & Rollers don't dress for the weather.
When I'm sleeping I do a lot of living.
I don't know if it's possible to affect my ego any more. There's no room left. For me, I think I make music like the way I think it should be made, like what rock should sound like. It has nothing to do with the current marketplace. And so from that state of mind, it's gonna sound different from anything else out there. And when something sounds different, I think that can be inspiring to other musicians.
I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.
I've been tired since I was 15.
I mean, if you asked me what I’m going to be doing when I’m 85, I’d make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I’ll be singing.
I'm not impersonating anybody. I'm perfectly satisfied with what I am.
Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.
The world today is the same as it always was but people know more about what's going on in the world than they used to.
I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues. What we're trying to do is play rock 'n' roll, but other people call it different things.
Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.
It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.
I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.
Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.
I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it.
Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?
I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.
I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.
Young people are still looking and older people have found.
When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, "I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist."
When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.
Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.
The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.
My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.
