Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he’s not down for his homeboys, I don’t wanna be a part of him or around him.

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I sing like a lark.

I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night.

If I have any spare time, I do enjoy riding cutting horses, or just everyday things mostly. Shopping with my kids or going to Disney World.

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we...

I am busy touring all over Europe, Japan, and Australia.

I think it’s going to take my whole life to sort of get people to know what my perspective is.

I had been brainwashed by my parents and society that to be a musician was unacceptable but by then I finally decided to at least give it a try.

There’s nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad...

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn’t work.

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

There was no alcohol back then, and no drugs. I remember people bringing cakes back to us after a show, but I never even smelled marijuana back then.

Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record.

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I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It’s not designed for any age group. It’s not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit...

Pretty woman, I don’t believe you, you’re not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy.

I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don’t even get 15 minutes of fame, it’s like a minute and a half.

If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it’s always cool. The kids are amazing.

There’s a whole lot of songs that men just can’t do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are.

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Well. I’m probably not loving myself like I should, but I’m really trying.

I had to play a George Harrison song at a benefit a couple nights ago, and it was really hard for me. Obviously it wasn’t my world.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven’t done before, things I’ve been going through in my life.

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin’ her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting’ to do all the things that she would have wanted to...

I just always remembered that, not that it pushed me to be a singer, but I don’t know why he said that. Hee Haw was a big part of my life, musically.

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail… and I’d never heard it before in my life.

Sure, I was depressed for a while. But I was just happy we had a hit. It was cool to know that the band was still together and had gigs to play.

I don’t have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I’m glad I don’t have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.

But anything that you hear about Japan is nothing like what you see when you actually go over there and see it, you know, in a real situation.

I do think song writing is a man’s game. It requires push, energy, movement, mixing; it is a field that is and has been dominated by men.

I don’t think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.

We can even sing off key, but if it’s produced properly it can be a hit.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

Screaming is bad for the voice, but it’s good for the heart.

I miss my singing career very much.

Too much TV hurts movies.

I’m kind of a quirky dresser usually. Like today, I’m actually pretty put together, but I dress kind of off sometimes, but that’s just part of my personality.

We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn’t go to.

There are two kinds of worries – those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist’s work and download it free is stealing. It’s hard work writing and recording music, and it’s morally wrong to steal it.

But, when it comes to all the other little instruments, of which there’s a lot in the stuff I’ve done the last couple of years, I do it all myself.

Without the music it was kind of hard to tell. People were very confused whether you’re allowed to laugh at the stuff that was happening.

And it’s just something that’s always come very naturally to me. And I built about, I don’t know, six, seven, eight guitars in Texas in the late 60s.

I ain’t got much education, but I got some sense.

Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.

I can pay my rent now. I guess I could always do that, but now I can get an apartment with heat.