The one thing I seek above all else is understanding. Sometimes I’m so frustrated and I don’t get it. But I’m lucky to have a good management team and people around me who explain things...

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It’s laid out for you. It’s just up to you to walk it.

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.

But I don’t have the discipline to play jazz myself. At the time though, I was stupid enough to think I could be a jazz musician.

I just don’t know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around.

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.

Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.

I know many beautiful songs from your home county, Carbon, and Monroe, and I hitchhiked through there and stayed in the homes of miners.

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they’re supposed to be leaders in the world, they’re followers. They follow what they think someone else is...

I think its man’s nature to go to war and fight.

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write...

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an...

We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.

I’m a total performer.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

I’ve always struggled so much just to appreciate myself.

It’s especially going to be great to get out there and perform in front of big crowds without having to worry about the competition aspect of it.

I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.

We were sharecroppers – we were a little bit of everything. We farmed and tried to make something.

They’re simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there’s no great challenge In being a classical drummer.

It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it’s more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don’t have to control what people...

I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap...

Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that’s your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

A rhyme doesn’t make a song.

I am not strict vegan, because I’m a hedonist pig. If I see a big chocolate cake that is made with eggs, I’ll have it.

I think what’s happening here is, there’s a group or maybe one person who is saying this is gonna be the definition and this is what we want to get the kids to do now.