If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

There’s a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

I can’t say I don’t get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.

We’re five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

It’s very difficult for me to say ‘I love you’ but to sing ‘I love you’ for me is easier.

Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn’t think I could carry his shoes back then.

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it’s just obtuse to them. It’s hard to relate to.

I don’t require what Daryl requires. He likes the performance a lot more than I do. I enjoy playing with a great band. I don’t need to tour.

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming...

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

I look at is as one single entity. I dehumanize the audience. This way, I don’t get nervous, you know?

If the Cowboys and Titans ain’t playing, I’m not interested.

I’m not sure about the selling part, but I’ve always found that the things I’ve worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning...

I have record approximately 10 studio albums. I had 16 top ten singles and sold in excess of 45 million records all over the world.

I think somewhere in the back of my mind I’ve always wanted to make a whole swing album.

I never really followed grunge.

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.

My idea of fast food is a mallard.

Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you’re not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.

Our lives sometimes depends on computers performing as predicted.

I’m a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I’m an old guy.

When you go to the theater, if you’re really involved in the play, you don’t think about it – you’re in it.

They’re trying to get me to go out there and testify, but I cannot go through that again in my whole life. No way, I’d be a basket case.

Hip-hop is a vehicle.

Progressive rock was happening.

This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what...

I was young and felt like it was opportunity ’cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.

This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn’t...

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn’t go over a cliff.

There’s not ever much of anything going on in my head.

I’m ready for anything they throw at me.

That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin’ to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin’ to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to...

I never liked the showboat guys who called attention to themselves, who turned the Leslie on and waved their hands up in the air.

There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.

I don’t want my album coming out with a ‘G’ rating. Nobody would buy it.

It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my...

There’s so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

I don’t care how good a song is – if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

I just wanted to go out and make a record that I’ve always wanted to make since I was a kid.

We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each other.

I’m a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I’m very emotional. I have high highs and low lows.

There’s all body types, but there’s just one size.

I’d rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He’s trying to kill everybody in jail.

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they’re going to have a kid that’s not going to want to play the piano.

We had a song called “Reach Out” that almost got us to the next level. During that time my wife and I made a decision to leave Los Angeles.

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I’m more of a creative guy… I can’t get into minute details.