Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun’s shining or not.

That’s basically what’s going on now: Everything is propaganda.

Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes.

You know honestly I think Simon prepared me for the critics. Simon really prepared me for a lot of things they are saying. It just rolls off my back.

Gossip is called gossip because it’s not always the truth.

The most boring thing in the world? Silence.

I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, ‘I wish this would have been brought out sooner,...

I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I’m not proud of this, and I’m not trying to promote it.

The Beatles were a pop group, but when you actually listen to the tracks, they were very rude about the way they went about things.

If you love god, burn a church.

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Shock is still fun. I won’t ever shut the door on it.

I’m very cerebral. I like to think things through.

Because as an only child, you have your own little world.

I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.

I’m like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

Most of us don’t spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough – you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.

Yeah, the whole band is from Brooklyn.

We’ve got great fans that rock and roll won’t have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

Oddly enough, it’s what we started out as, it’s what we always have been, and it’s almost like Aerosmith is that band in the closet.

The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated...

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

It was just like Howlin’ Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.

I think I’m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it’s authority that I respect.

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.