I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

I'm amazed that I can still play really. But I can.

In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.

I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

...the player who looks least engaged may be the most committed member of the group. A cynic, after all, is a passionate person who does not want to be disappointed again.

Find your path in life and travel on it.

The people in my songs are all me.

Just putting my uniform on keeps me going. Being able to get out there keeps me going. That's the best therapy.

Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.

The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.

We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.

A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerly believe and enthusiastically act upon ... must inevitably come to pass.

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.