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.

I think he might miss everything he used to do but I don’t know that for a fact. His wife is probably the only one that does. A sweet lady.

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn’t understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I...

I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.

Well, you know, back then there wasn’t many albums, it was the singles. You sold singles.

Talent is being able to please people.

That’s one strength that Stevie has. She’s really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.

When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with.

I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on – getting to the artist, getting...

I believe people can move things with their minds.

The only thing I wasn’t prepared for was being everywhere all at the same time.

I didn’t know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don’t know their mothers had it; that’s the sad thing about depression. You know, you don’t function anymore. You shut down. You...

I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of...

My father was very strong. I don’t agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don’t agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity,...

It’s the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.

I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I...

I’ve always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

I don’t know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

So I was really composing for full orchestra and of course I didn’t know enough chords or harmonies yet but I came up with some interesting stuff.

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

There’s just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.

I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don’t hit the headlines.

The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors’ works have...

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.