I can never remember what I do even in the studio.

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

When something is not good, it's bad. Period

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

Not for everyone a darkest night is bid farewell by a bright sunrise.

For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money and that is to enjoy earning it.

It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver.

I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.

Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

When I was doing standup, I always wanted to get out of the standup world and take it back into the theatrical world, like with "No Cure For Cancer."

My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.

Always tell the truth or the truth will tell on you.

She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door