I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

All I’m trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

Running with the wrong crowd will never help you.

I’m trying to make it to be 90 years old.

Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the...

Making music is fantastic.

I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.

Every act I see, their whole act is choreographed. I’m sick of seeing these dancers. The only reason they have them is they don’t have enough talent to get people dancing themselves.

Then all this started to pick up because I signed with ForeFront when I was in seventh grade. It got a lot busier and I was traveling a lot and it wasn’t making sense. Especially...

I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I’m looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.

Most performers don’t admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely.

I’m not likely to forget where I’ve been and what I’ve done and learned. I think it’s just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer...

Any guy that’s not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don’t want to know.

I know that people think I’m sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It’s wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful...

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Next door, there’s an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I’m sorry, I...

When you’re famous, you don’t get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don’t see the real people.

I’m from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.

I think it’s a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.

I just don’t think one person has that much to contribute to any subject.

There are 120 million kids in the world right now who don’t go to school. Who have no education – who have no access to education.

I’m used to hearing myself. My own voice.

I was blessed with a gift. It’s a gift and a curse. It never ends.

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they’ll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

I think a guy who’s had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.

Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You’re writing for the public.

It’s hot as hell as can be.

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn’t.

My major in college was speech therapy, but to do what I wanted I would have to go on and get my Master’s Degree. I figured I needed a change of pace.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

I had a picture of myself when I was a kid, how I’d look when I got old. I look in the mirror and think, This is pretty much it.

We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we’re going to after that.

Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it’s over. It’s over.

In Tim’s films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don’t get the film.

It’s probably getting our old drummer back and actually playing as a band. And, I don’t know, it sounds like what we do best right now.

But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I’m getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my...

I wasn’t for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.

After a while I thought it didn’t make any sense to use a pick. It’s kind of like typing with one finger on each hand instead of using all your fingers.

As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius – in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.

I really like playing live and don’t mind being on the road, if it’s with the right band. I do like creating in the studio and enjoy the end results.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they’re made, so I’m in no hurry.

No, my son’s a songwriter and he does that.

The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.

We go to Australia with LeAnn Rimes for a couple of weeks in October. We have a lot of shows between now and the end of the year.

The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn’t my idea.

They look at what’s more important, like subjects to help with the SAT’s, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it’s different.