I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.

Stop looking out, start looking in. Be your own best friend. Stand up and say, hey, this is mine!

Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.

When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now."

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

So many things can get you high, I'm gonna try them all just once before I die.

It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

You could be in the gutter and fall in love with someone, and you feel great. That's my honest opinion. I've witnessed both sides of that fence and being in love is where it's at.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie.

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.

The Order of Merciful Aid provided merciful aid, usually on the edge of a blade or the burn of a bullet.

Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!

In the 1970's and in early 1980's, a startling discovery was made that almost every problem contains an element of solutions.

Americans took a great deal too much credit for creating wealth, when most of the time they had really just been living off natural bounty unprecedented in the history of the world.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.

The head coach tells us what to do, and we follow his orders.