But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

I tend to eat what I want, which probably isn’t good.

I couldn’t begin to name names… in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet… and some of the nicest as well.

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.

I haven’t read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.

Everything is a battle with this band.

I’d like to do a Christmas album. I’ve never done a Christmas album.

I mean, as long as it doesn’t have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things that went out of style 30 years ago. As things go around, they come around.

After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name.

I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school – snare and timpani mostly.

I had a band in St. Louis. By then, things that influenced me were the first Stones albums, the first Byrds albums, later the Velvet Underground.

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I’m going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I’d scare you.

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize – yours, not anybody else’s.

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

A man is a God in ruins.

I’m not a goody-two-shoes. I’m just a father with four children.

I do not like onions. It’s so funny because I am probably one of the least picky eaters ever. Pretty much any type of new food, I’ll try it, I’ll eat it. But onions, and...

So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you’re talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50...

I summoned my courage and auditioned for a choir job in a Catholic Church and landed a job there. It paid about thirty dollars a month.

I don’t meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

I been doing music my whole life.

Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

And if it’s not there – if that little melody is not in my head, or if I just don’t really feel like picking up the guitar – I just don’t do it.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.

I can’t believe this is happening to me. The weirdest thing is it was just a dream, and now it’s actually real. It’s hard to believe sometimes.

I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore?

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that’s gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that’s just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn’t sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.

We signed an amazing deal with 100 percent artistic control simply because when we signed it Nirvana were at the height of their fame.

No, it was a company called CRASH. They’re a very hot ad company in England. A very commercial ad company, one of the biggest, does all these commercials.

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn’t stay that long because I went into show business.

I love home. I’ll stay up there for days on end, I won’t even go down the driveway to look for the mail.

If I couldn’t do it, then I’d be defeated. I’ve got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.

The songwriter mustn’t fall in love with his own song. If it doesn’t belong, he can’t push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it’ll fit in another show.

For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.

I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something.

No lies, just love.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

Man, I really like Vegas.

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and… disposable.

A ballad once in a while doesn’t go amiss.

I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.

I’m working still a bit on Lisa Loeb’s new record, and that’s going to be a great record when it finally gets a chance to come out.

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it’s the film that’s appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it’s not from classical music.

It’s hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like – It’s never been a factor in...

It was really amazing. I mean, he’d never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.