There's no blueprint for success in rock'n'roll.
I want to be mayor of the world. Don't give me too much money or too much power.
In the music business, there's a lot of criticism and rejection. If you embrace it, you'll be better off when the adjustment comes.
I like Detroit.
I learned that South Africa is a beautiful country with gorgeous people, and I got to see it from a different perspective than most people do.
I think that many of the issues they were facing in South Africa were the same as those I was singing about. Conscription, resisting the draft, government repression - I mentioned all those things in my songs.
I graduated from Wayne State University, but there's a whole lot you don't learn in school.
I love my country. It's just the government I don't trust.
I like to say that I do covers of my own songs. And I have about a dozen bands all over the world. That's no exaggeration. I have a South African band, an Australian band, Swedish bands, English bands, American bands. They're all notable musicians, too.
I'm a musical political, I tend to stick to what I see happening outside my front door.
I loved Jimmy Reed, the chord changes, the lyrics.
I did a lot of heavy-lifting - construction, demolition, that kind of thing. Dusty, dirty work.
I play by ear - I'm self-taught. And so everything I do is through that technique.
I'm Mexican, and we do a lot of singing, and it was my brother's guitar that I'd practice on, and he would say, 'Who's that playing my guitar?'
Was 'Crucify Your Mind' dedicated to anybody? No, it was a generalization. 'A Most Disgusting Song' is like that, too.
The social realism of ' Establishment Blues' or 'Like Janis,' are what I chose to use to express what was happening in the U.S. and what was happening to me personally.
The earth is going to survive, it's the people that aren't.
My dad, he was my role model - my mom died when I was three - and the way we honor our parents is remembering their heritage.
My family, we're indigenous people from San Luis Potosi in Central Mexico. My father moved to Detroit and brought all of us because the automobile companies were paying great wages.
I've had such an ordinary life.
