I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

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.

Like madness is the glory of this life.

Four will Become Two, Lion and Tiger will Meet in Battle, and Blood will Rule the Forest.

The holocaust is the solution to the Jews final question

They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.

I was born into a world of art. I always thought that in life, you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep and you draw.

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.

Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.

But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.