I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits

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.

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

We treat the things that soak up energy and resources like they're valuable, and the things that generate them like they're disposable. We don't celebrate batteries. And I think that's wrong.

There is little serenity comparable to the serenity of the inexperienced giving advice to the experienced.

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.

I may not look it when I'm playing, but I think I'm a fun guy to hang with when I'm relaxing.

A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral.

I was analyzing the guys' nonverbal communication.

Iran's military hardware is less than a fraction of that of any of the countries in this region.