My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

I’m trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain’t too much spicy to tell about me.

I’m the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it’s the truth.

Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.

We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank’s songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.

Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.

I didn’t get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right....

My father’s record collection was all country. That’s how I was exposed to it.

I’m seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn’t, you know, using them… a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own...

Right now I’m struggling to get on my feet and I wouldn’t be to continue through that process if it were for my fans and how good they are to me.

There’s nothing wrong with shooting for the stars.

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.

I’ll say it loud and say it proud. I’m completely insane.

I’m not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

Let me start by saying, I’m utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

There’s a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

I can’t say I don’t get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.

We’re five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

It’s very difficult for me to say ‘I love you’ but to sing ‘I love you’ for me is easier.

Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn’t think I could carry his shoes back then.

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it’s just obtuse to them. It’s hard to relate to.

I don’t require what Daryl requires. He likes the performance a lot more than I do. I enjoy playing with a great band. I don’t need to tour.

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming...

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

I look at is as one single entity. I dehumanize the audience. This way, I don’t get nervous, you know?

If the Cowboys and Titans ain’t playing, I’m not interested.

I’m not sure about the selling part, but I’ve always found that the things I’ve worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning...

I have record approximately 10 studio albums. I had 16 top ten singles and sold in excess of 45 million records all over the world.

I think somewhere in the back of my mind I’ve always wanted to make a whole swing album.

I never really followed grunge.

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.

My idea of fast food is a mallard.

Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you’re not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.

Our lives sometimes depends on computers performing as predicted.

I’m a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I’m an old guy.

When you go to the theater, if you’re really involved in the play, you don’t think about it – you’re in it.

They’re trying to get me to go out there and testify, but I cannot go through that again in my whole life. No way, I’d be a basket case.

Hip-hop is a vehicle.

Progressive rock was happening.

This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what...

I was young and felt like it was opportunity ’cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.

This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn’t...

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn’t go over a cliff.

There’s not ever much of anything going on in my head.