I can't see. I used to wear glasses off stage. Now I'm thinking of getting a pair of contract lenses.

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.

You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.

It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.

We're making progress. Our military is assisting in Iraq. And we're hoping that within the year we'll be able to push ISIS out of Iraq and then, you know, really squeeze them in Syria.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story.

That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent!

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.

I started to crouch because that way I could guard the plate better, and I always wanted to hit .300 in the big leagues.