I didn’t take lessons, and I don’t know my scales.

I remember letting someone in the house who had a gun. And when I was about 10, letting someone else in who was just out of the insane asylum.

Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.

I’ve sold my soul for freedom. It’s lonely but it’s sweet.

I’m completely removed from any hype that comes my way.

My nutritionist always said to eat whatever you want.

You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

Colonel Parker said, When we get off the plane, you stay with Elvis. I want you in all the pictures.

There’s sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.

Don’t expect me to cry for all the reasons you had to die.

I think I jump around more when I’m alone.

No. You know what really bugs me about my videos? When they can’t figure out what to do, they just have me change clothes five times.

I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.

If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.

I’ve studied a lot of great people over the years – Pete Seeger, James Brown – and tried to incorporate elements that I’ve admired, though I can’t say I dance like James.

What’s great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.

If something that needs to be done that we don’t feel confronting, we do it through the manager.

The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.

We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that.

It’s not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It’s what you leave behind you when you go.

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

I get a lot out of a show when I know that I don’t know anyone in the audience and don’t think the audience knows much about the music.

My first solo was in church when I was five.

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

Thug Life to me is dead.

I mean I’ll be retired from rap, so what I’ll be doin’ in rap will be for fun.

We would just be learning to play Beatles songs and Rolling Stones songs of that time – of the ’60s. That’s kinda what inspired me to play.

It doesn’t matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn’t. I...

It’s a strange thing, but when God’s call is on your life, it shouldn’t be a strange thing, especially when we’re working as a family.

Well if somebody’s giving me a script, I’ll consider it. But it’s not something I’m chasing.

In the 50s, I wrote the lyrics to an old melody called Melody of Love, which was number one for a while. It later turned into a major hit.

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there’s got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you’re at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you...

Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.

Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn’t interested.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.

My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing.

I’m in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I’m around we’ll take a look.

I have other things that I have to do – practice my martial arts, take care of my cars. I don’t put too much emphasis on practice anyhow.

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

It’s a long old road, but I know I’m gonna find the end.

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn’t think of it as being tough and things like that.

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It’s always been on a high level.