Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

I’m more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you’re like, “What?”

I’ve been using kind of a traditional metal guitar sound, a traditional hard-rock and metal guitar sound. That’s what the trio thing is about.

I realized later on that a lot of times I’d go back to Colorado to hide from all the mayhem in San Francisco so I could get songs written.

Know your power.

My father was always getting excited about something. It’s genetically inside me somewhere.

What my home life is like now is great.

The reunion we did the summer before last was really good. It was the first time that we had a really good time and made money together.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

Rock n’ Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That’s what rock n’ roll should...

I find you get out of people what you put into them.

I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy.

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.

At home I’m just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.

When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down.

Everybody has problems.

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.

If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

Country has been a wonderful outlet for me.

I’ve always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.

I saw Suicide in ’74 and it was pretty horrifying.

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be...

Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

I didn’t know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I’d worked on and perfected.

The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you’re up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

I also told John Hammond this, 20 years later – to his exquisite embarrassment – that he was like this incredible, overwhelming influence on me.

Well, first of all, they’re all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.

I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don’t appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can...

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a...

Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to...

Around the age of 14, 15, I was in the studio, serious about it.

I’ve messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.

There is a bit of acting involved when you get in front of a camera for a video. Even when you perform onstage, you’re putting on a show.

Let me do five of those, and then some slower ones for those kids that can’t understand what I’m sayin.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.

Rock fans are pretty fickle, too, you know.

As far as music school goes. I walked through Berkeley one time to visit with some people I know.

You’re gonna notice me when I come in. I’m gonna make a statement without opening my mouth, and when I leave, you’re gonna remember that.

The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be...

If you’re climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don’t look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you...

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Jazz needs the help. It’s the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn’t.

Keep it in tune with the times, but don’t write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you’re doing it strictly to make money, you’re crazy. There are easier ways to...

On Valentine’s day, I’m doing a show with an orchestra. We’re doing a show with all standards for the Children’s Hospital in Charleston.

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

I’ve learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that’s why my sound has become a little more pop.

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.