At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.

I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

Lose the chrome-plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock.

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.

Nikki lives around the corner from me and I see him all the time. We talk a lot, and of course we're still friends. That was our baby, Motley Crue, we put that band together.

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

Last night at Bingo, Sylvia won the last prize. 'What am I going to do with a mermaid?" "Learn to swim in the murkiest water, reinvent yourself, " the mermaid said #149

Apology is not about saying I'm sorry, but it is about the meaning you put behind the apology and admitting that you are the wrong part.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.

Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

You really need to love something or someone in order to work hard enough to be very successful. You have to believe in something and have a certain optimism.

I feel blessed. So many men and women search and search but never find their passion, their calling, their sense of mission that would ignite their hearts and fill their lives with meaning and joy.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.