I became stereotyped.

You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.

Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.

There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.

I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.

The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.

My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

When Hope disappears ~ Faith steps in...

Who knows the life which does not burn its own time moments?

All life's achievements proceed from the Author of life.

We always long for forbidden things k and desire what is denied us.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

I thought maybe I would be everyone's favorite dude-food friend.

When you sing live, you cannot expect any artist, except for the amazing Beyonce or GaGa, to get it right every time.

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

For the sake of a dying, suffering world count the cost, pay the price and set the captives free

If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds.