"We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues."

"I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade."

"My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country."

"Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper."