If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.