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I haven’t changed. I grew up

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Every time I listen back to solos of mine I’ll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can’t stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don’t think so much like that.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.