I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.

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.

Any man's a fool who lets himself be a wage-earning slave, today.

A year jammed full of adventure and misadventure, strides forward and many steps backward, another year in my topsy-turvy, Jekyll-and-Hyde existence.

Lying on my bed, my brain cyclones with thoughts of men and boys and boys and men. All making the wrong choices.

True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

I think being prepared for anything is the way to go.

I'd love to do an acoustic album alright, just on stage. That'd be nice.

If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

I just owe it to myself, to God and to everybody who supports me and people who don't even know me yet, to just be fully intentional and authentically real with everything I do, say and create.

Your thoughts of God are too human