Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

It doesn't take much to be good, but it takes a lot to be real good.

If you're really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.

ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.

This shows you that even mistakes are sometimes valuable, so do not be hard on grown-up people if they are wrong sometimes.

Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.

I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. So the only thing to really be afraid of is if you don't go get your mammograms.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

For granting we have sinned, and that the offence Of man is made against Omnipotence, Some price that bears proportion must be paid, And infinite with infinite be weighed.

love means to see the one you love happy

Love - Truth-seeking The strength of Truth lies in Love and the strength of Love lies in Truth.

Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.

Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.