People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.
Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.
I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.
When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.
I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.
Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.
Human nature has been sold short. . . [humans have] a higher nature which. . . includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.
A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.
My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to work independently.
Which reminded me. . . I still owed the gods a debt. "You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth.