“There are thousands of great artists that wouldn't be doing the same k...” — Jeff Buckley Quote

There are thousands of great artists that wouldn't be doing the same kind of work if there were no music business machine. The ones who are popular would be doing much different work, too. Michael Bolton would be pumping gas.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

I once took a ride to the beach in L.A., and all along the shore there were all these so-called jazz places. And I saw these college guys and session players playing this fusion Muzak stuff. It was just a lot of notes, and the more notes they played, the more it kept them from expressing anything. So I came back home and got out my Zeppelin albums.

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

Everybody in L.A. has a screenplay. The guy pumping your gas has a screenplay.

I grew up in gas stations.

That's what the gas is about, that's what the bloating is about and that's what the fat storage is about.

We were living in a tough situation, but my mother managed; she juggled. Sometimes we'd pay the light bill, sometimes we paid the phone, sometimes the gas went off.

Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.