I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work.

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.

When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

Things not worth doing are not worth doing well.

I'm pretty good at putting up drywall and I'm an excellent kisser. That's pretty much all of my skills right there.

I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.

Writing and performing are to me what water and movement are to sharks.

The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.