"We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it."

"If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive."

"I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction."

"I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength."

"In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away."

"Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst."

"Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use."