If you went to see me today, you might not like my music.

There have been many times when I’ve been asked to appear and I’d say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I’d tell everyone, Don’t ask me...

I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops.

A friend of mine once told me that I can’t screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples’ songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out...

The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don’t test the other two because they are so rare; mine...

I never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can’t say I wanted to do it, but I fantasized and thought...

Take the back roads instead of the highways.

That’s the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it’s time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.

Thought the sun is gone, I have a light.

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers – if that’s where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in...

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn’t change that experience for anything.

I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker.

I’m not a wild and crazy person.

I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren’t getting it on the radio.

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people,...

Music is the career I’m lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

We are all atheists.

There was a lot of things I probably wouldn’t do now, you know, if I had it to do over again and I’m sure he feels the same way.

My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the...

My feet never touched the ground. Lots of good groups with crazy and unique images. It was wild. I spent all of my time doing gigs, TV appearances, interviews, or recording. I could write a...

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don’t show it realistically, then that’s immoral and harmful. If you don’t upset people, then that’s obscenity.

I took guitar lessons in ’58. To find someone to teach you to play rock and roll then was rough. I had to figure it out on my own.

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?

I really have the American dream licked.

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today’s music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.

You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training...

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

Every time we’ve gone somewhere, it’s just been better and better and God’s always blessed us for following.

I’m not looking to set a standard… but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.

I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression.

If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.

Ozzy has dyslexia.

I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

I want my permanent address to be in Oklahoma. Someday, when I get married and I have kids, that’s where I want to raise my kids.

A friend is not only someone who you can confide in, it is someone who can mirror the trust you have shown by confiding in you as well.

Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You don’t have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody...

I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this...

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.

If everybody gets in there and sees that and understands that, then it lets them know that they’re all human beings and creatures of God.

The things that got me through grade school are helping me out later in life. It’s like, I show up on time. If you buy a ticket to one of my shows, I’ll show up....