Ain’t no chance if you don’t take it.

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I’m used to having a few guns around to protect me.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.

I really don’t have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.

I use Windows; ’98 second edition and it works very good for me. You know, I just started on the computer about 9 months ago and am fascinated with the possibilities. I don’t know what...

I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just...

So when I leave here at the first of the year it’ll become… well, it’s already open on Sundays as a church. But it’ll be a full-time church.

I didn’t choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped.

You’re always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they’re all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn’t done on the first one.

We were trying for that very hard, but part of the credit is due to Eric Jacobson, whose real talents as a producer were considerable and still are.

With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written them because she brought such a power and passion to them...

Every time you do a project, you learn something new.

The fans have been great to me. I don’t think it’s asking too much to have me sign something for them.

In my case, my progesterone levels didn’t even register. I was at zero. And by the time I actually got help five months later they were still at zero.

If I’m alone too long I think too much, and I’m not interested in doing that. That won’t lead anywhere good, I’m sure. If I’m busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle...

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

I’m totally down with insurrection in the street. I’ve had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.

It’s better to burn out than fade away.

I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.

Music should be your escape.

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool.

The Telecaster doesn’t really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

At some point in their career, most people do an album of great hits of other performers – a tribute album that shows their influences.

Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good.

I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?

Aww, come on man, I can barely handle 6 strings.

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it’s on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with...

From ’69 til ’76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.

It’s the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they’re gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as...

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians – except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

I try to help motivate the other guys in the band. I talk to the other guys in the group about frequency of meals and how you should eat.

I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of...

Stage performing is a dying art form.

Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they’re not looking for a record that’s not gonna do well.

I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women’s liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had...

I didn’t end up going bankrupt… I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it’s not...

I got a woman that’s mean as she can be, sometimes I think she’s almost as mean as me.

Chris Jericho is a great guy. He’s beyond hysterical. He’s good people. They’re really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.

There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in...