I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.

I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God.

It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.

When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

Rock 'n roll was born in the South, man. It's like saying rock-rock.

In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married.

What can you give God but bhakti bhava? He owns it all anyway.

He would have been handsome—in a serial-killer kind of way—if not for those tattoos.

It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save species, we're actually saving ourselves.

Politicians and corporations have always placed economic interests above moral interests. This is now hurting the entire planet.

Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

When a person understands what sort of existence a human being is, and what exactly the "self" is, that person has been liberated forever.

I have less control over how I'm cast and the jobs that I get than people would imagine. Most of us don't have control over that, but I think it's a preponderance of your body of work.

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

God can take your most monstrous failures and turn them into triumphs such as you never could imagine.