Sometimes you get real close, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes they drive you crazy. I think every composer does that. That’s a big part of the job.

Well, we didn’t have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There...

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That’s why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

In the long run, you make your own luck – good, bad, or indifferent.

You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past.

Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.

I haven’t seen or spoken to Ray Collins in at least 10 years so I don’t even know if he’s alive. I hope so.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

I’ve got a sock drawer full of songs that I’ve started but, you know, I’m doing two shows a day here and it’s just hard to sit down and finish them.

I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in.

Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It’s equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.

Now, I was the Summer Concert guy. I played every Summer concert there was.

There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.

I have 20,000 girlfriends, all around the world.

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I’m not an Elvis impersonator.

It’s not like rock was invented by people who were trying to show their great muscularity and how perfect and strong they could be.

I was just horrified. I thought the girls were going to kill Elvis. They would have if they could have gotten loose, I’m afraid.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor’s office and they did my X-ray and didn’t find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the...

When you sit down now and really listen, it doesn’t give off the same feel as it did back when Run DMC and those guys were rhymin’.

There are problems and conflicts arise, but so far we’ve been able to overcome any difficulties that arise in a really considerate and mature fashion.

After all, in today’s music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

It’s like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, ‘Don’t call me that. I don’t think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call...

I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.

You’re just sort of searching for this “thing” and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don’t. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you’re improvising, at least the way I play, I’m trying...

We’ve been together since we’ve been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it’s like nothing ever has changed.

I don’t do much else but stay in my hotel room.

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people...

I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.

As you know, I’m androgynous. I can wear a jacket that most guys wouldn’t put on. But you make it in guys’ sizes, and suddenly they’re wearing them. I think styles should get back to...

Me, I’m spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that’s about as close to God as I get.

Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.

Normal love isn’t interesting. I assure you that it’s incredibly boring.

I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there’s a lot going on there with the guitars- it’s the product of a lot of fighting.

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don’t crush evil then evil will get you.

I’ve been overweight all my life.

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

You can hit your legs really hard, you can get very, very sore from training and I love that, but, the one I’d feel most on stage is legs. But, the thing that happens is...

I hate negative songs; I won’t sing them. It doesn’t matter if it’s sold 2 million more albums.

When we started, we didn’t do it for the money, we didn’t do it to be packaged, all we wanted to do was rock ‘n’ roll, to have fun, and we did.

I was always rhyming and doing it for the love before I found out I was gonna have children and when I found out, doing it for the love wasn’t enough.

I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

There’s really no age limit when you out there in those streets.

If it’s a long bus drive after the gig, we’ll listen to music all the time, like the Stones, Neil Young, Elton John. Just mellow stuff.

All the drawings are mine. Originally, the idea I sold to Random House was an illustrated recipe book on how to defend yourself against monsters.

So it doesn’t have to be happy music to be inspiring.