I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It’s always been on a high level.

As a matter of fact, we put it down because we wanted to be jazz pickers.

As an individual I was known as the DJ or the mixer.

It’s all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.

I’m going to Yoshi’s. I’m taking a few gigs. I’m playing. I’m not going to play all the time. I’m going to take it easy and take it slow and warm up so I can...

I didn’t have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

A number doesn’t have any moral value. People do.

The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I’m a feminist. That suits me fine.

Our first record didn’t come out on vinyl, so I think that might have had something to do with actually being in a position to make sure that it came out in vinyl this time....

To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run.

I’m trying to interpret the film through the director’s head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

You can’t really compare because I played with these guys for 2 months and the Pumpkins I’ve played with for 12 years, so I can’t really compare it.

Things change all the time, and they’ll probably never be the same again. It’s just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you...

I want more out of life than I’ve gotten.

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

Inspiration is one thing and you can’t control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.

It was a wild time – a time that I don’t miss anymore. But then again, I’m 62 years old now and I think that lifestyle would probably put me where Frank’s at now.

People just expect you to show up, be a cartoon character of yourself, take your money and go home. But don’t screw up to the point where you’re gonna be out of the picture.

And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches – their headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri. They leased it to them for the first year. Then, after the first year, they...

I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.

I didn’t take lessons, and I don’t know my scales.

I remember letting someone in the house who had a gun. And when I was about 10, letting someone else in who was just out of the insane asylum.

Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.

I’ve sold my soul for freedom. It’s lonely but it’s sweet.

I’m completely removed from any hype that comes my way.

My nutritionist always said to eat whatever you want.

You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

Colonel Parker said, When we get off the plane, you stay with Elvis. I want you in all the pictures.

There’s sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.

Don’t expect me to cry for all the reasons you had to die.

I think I jump around more when I’m alone.

No. You know what really bugs me about my videos? When they can’t figure out what to do, they just have me change clothes five times.

I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.

If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.

I’ve studied a lot of great people over the years – Pete Seeger, James Brown – and tried to incorporate elements that I’ve admired, though I can’t say I dance like James.

What’s great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.

If something that needs to be done that we don’t feel confronting, we do it through the manager.

The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.

We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that.

It’s not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It’s what you leave behind you when you go.

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

I get a lot out of a show when I know that I don’t know anyone in the audience and don’t think the audience knows much about the music.

My first solo was in church when I was five.

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

Thug Life to me is dead.