"I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much."

"I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us."

"My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice."

"The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser."