I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I’d cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.

I’m not a partygoer.

I live in the middle of the mountains in Aspen Colorado, I have the tractor on my ranch. Right out my door is thousands of acres of national forest.

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

Kurt and I weren’t the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

It’s getting popular now with the younger kids with Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails, so maybe we’re just around at the right time.

The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place...

It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.

Joan was one of my biggest fans, as was Chrissie Hynde.

I’ve been playing swing chords for a long time.

I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.

In my mind I’m a blind man doin’ time.

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.

The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time.

Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing...

The first few albums I bought, I guess around high school age, I had a John Lee Hooker album and a Bo Diddley album, and then some singles.

When I do a concert and people put their hands in the air, they’re doing it on their own.

I think music sharing of any kind is great.

I ended up performing on a full time basis and I never got to Julliard at all.

Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

If I’m playing with Ozzy it’s just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I’m studying for the SATs.

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

I got to meet some of the best people I’ve ever met, and we all grew as people and as entertainers.

They’re paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.

But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I’m not going to go to bed hungry, I’m not going to wear hand-me-down clothes.

I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the...

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.

The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what he chooses to do with his life, not by what happens to him.

I’m a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

If somebody would come and they’re not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.

I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn’t really appreciate country music until I went there.

Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn’t dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes...

I can conduct better than I count.

Man, they gave me a key to the city. Can you imagine going back to Indiana and getting the key to the city? So that made me feel pretty good.

It wasn’t until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he’s right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music.

I don’t do any vulgar movements.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

I became unsure about the future, in terms of my career. I was living in a remote location contemplating other kinds of work, not only in music.

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

People see Eddie for 20 seconds at the Grammys and think, Goddamn, he must be like this all the time. I feel sorry for his friends.

I’m lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only...

In Tim’s films the tone is the most important thing that the score can do. In any unusual film, finding the tone makes such a big difference.

If you put all the songs together that I’ve written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there’s definitely a different kind of feel than Billy’s songs.

Well, I had a fiddle that I really can’t play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he’s from another planet.

I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.