I ain’t good-lookin’, but I’m somebody’s angel child.

I never had those hang-ups. I mean, I think the people that were concerned, maybe your agents and things had those things, but I never knew.

I love to laugh, it’s my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together.

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

A scratch is nothing but the back-cueing that you hear in your ear before you push it out to the crowd.

It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.

I quite drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn’t help the healing process.

At The Gong Show… I was nervous, I was afraid, but I went out there and auditioned and they liked me. They asked me to come back and tape the show.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you’re releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

I’ll look back and I’d be better to answer that in about three months from now. Or when the movie comes out and I see it. I don’t even know what it is yet. I’ve...

Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit… I don’t know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues.

Mary Gauthier’s great. Yeah, we’ve played a lot of gigs together. She’s really wonderful.

I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you’re playing rock, you use a pick. There’s really no rhyme or reason to that other than that’s just the way it has been.

I’ve done every tour with them since then and will always be with them as long as they’re together.

My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record....

And I had to take care of a little dog too named Suzy. It was the promoter’s wife’s – Judy Lynn’s – it was her dog. And one of my duties going on the tour...

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

Everyone was probably at their worst in terms of their own personal struggles and substance abuse – anything that could detract from creativity.

Years on, Christine and John still have a deep love for each other, as do Stevie and I – we’ve been working together since I was 17.

Even though other people wrote my songs I put my stamp on them. I have a connection, but there is no truer connection than an artists and their own song.

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

I will always come with something that’s aesthetically pleasing.

I’m making a record that’s half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It’s really hard to keep music simple but I was trying...

We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I think we can heal people before they become chronically sick. I believe our thoughts make...

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis’ suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone.

The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.

I love my mother. She’s my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It’s still the way I...

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

I’ve always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I’ll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that...

I’m now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I’ve gotten out a lot of the old equipment.

The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist.

If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn’t change my life.

The desire to be rewarded for one’s creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin’ anything we could get our hands on.

But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.

I don’t mind being a grandfather; I’ve been a mother for so many years. You just can’t believe what it’s like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road...

I don’t usually read reviews.

As much as I love the amazing players in Nashville, and once in a while you can get that unrehearsed kind of feeling, it can be difficult here.

I don’t really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don’t, it’s like telling a...