And for him [Kurt Cobain] to do that [suicide] - I didn't like that. I thought that was just wrong. It just sent a bad message to a troubled generation.

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.

Stop looking out, start looking in. Be your own best friend. Stand up and say, hey, this is mine!

Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.

When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now."

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

So many things can get you high, I'm gonna try them all just once before I die.

It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

You could be in the gutter and fall in love with someone, and you feel great. That's my honest opinion. I've witnessed both sides of that fence and being in love is where it's at.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

Most of us will have no idea where we are going most of the time. And I know that is unsettling.But circumstantial uncertainty also goes by another name: Adventure.

I refuse to be linguistically constrained by dictionary writers.

Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.

When you are surrounded by four people, one of them smiling, taunting, demanding, terrorizing, you don't have a complete grasp or perfect vision.

Look back on your wedding And be filled with joy and pride Deservedly so, for the many years You've flourished, side by side

The only waste of human resources is letting them go unused.

There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.

Music does not know the difference between people; it only speaks to their hearts. It is the only form of communication that can bring this terrible world together.

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lapses of spirit.