Blackberry Smoke is a band that will never go hungry.

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

Live. Love. Smile. Hug. Laugh. Dream. Do. Create. Have fun. Be intense. Be audacious. Be unreasonable. Act impeccably. Breathe. Be you. Be different.

Self actualization is the oxygen for the soul.

Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

If people have a passion for anything they tend to get quite good at it.

Live at your highest potential-moment to moment to moment... When do we feel most alive? When we're being ourselves-our highest selves.

The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old.

A metallurgist is someone who can look at a platinum blonde and tell whether she's virgin material or a common ore.

I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know.

We see this as a test of their ability to face reality.

Genius is 10% talent and 90% hard work

I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

Our problems don’t stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be right.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Men of God are always men of prayer.

She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.

We're still benefiting from the sacrifices of people long dead, but we're also suffering from their errors.

Do things to make your day precious.

Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.