At The Gong Show… I was nervous, I was afraid, but I went out there and auditioned and they liked me. They asked me to come back and tape the show.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

Critics have their purposes, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they...

George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was...

We’re loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

Or certainly I would need time – which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film – to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these...

We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and… I worked on that.

Back then, we didn’t know we were poor, and people were more proud then.

I’ve always been full of nervous energy, but I’m not really as happy as I seem.

The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I’ve showed them a certain respect for this career.

The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is...

We never got anything out of the recordings. I’m still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.

Sometimes you forget where the heck you are but when you get on stage, you know by the look on the people’s faces and the accent in their voices where you might be.

I have a painting up in Washington, D.C. at the House of the Temple for the Scottish Rite, and those prints are selling for $250.

In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally...

I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

Success is like a high-rise building I’m on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the parking lot but I was lucky enough to have made it to the...

I’m a perfectionist. I can’t help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.

My career decisions have nothing to do with my personal life.

What I do and what I record only work for the moment.

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don’t think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

I still think Keith Richards is great.

I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote – not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you...

Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

Now everybody’s sampling.

But the new stuff sounds like the Go-Go’s, so the crowd isn’t getting up and going to the bathroom every time we play a new song.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

When you’re on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.

I don’t see the world unless I see it in ink.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

The thing is, we’ve changed our style but we’ve never changed the actual roots of what we’ve done.

A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but...

But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.

I don’t mind being a grandfather; I’ve been a mother for so many years. You just can’t believe what it’s like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road...

I don’t usually read reviews.

As much as I love the amazing players in Nashville, and once in a while you can get that unrehearsed kind of feeling, it can be difficult here.

I don’t really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don’t, it’s like telling a...

A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won’t come true.

If it’s flipping hamburgers at McDonald’s, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.

The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.

First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.

And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I...

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue.

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They’re intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock’n’roll fans: sensible people I wouldn’t mind having a drink with.