"I only want to make music because I have a passion for it."

"Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me."

"Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world."

"When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place."

"We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters."

"It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction."

"I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible."

"If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk."