I blew my voice out and the doctor said, don't even talk for a week.

I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing.

My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.

When I'm with Purple, I'm totally with Purple; when I'm doing my thing, I'm totally doing my own thing.

I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.

I can't do anything but play guitar.

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.

I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.

I don't like English bands. They're too structured.

When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.

Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine

Find Meaning, Find Yourself.

Always put the unknown future into the hands of the known God. He has the key it will take to unlock your locked doors.

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.

An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.

When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every time.

The one who sings, prays twice.