I much prefer the road. My thing is getting live in front of people. There is a sterile environment to a studio that doesnt make me let go.

The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art

David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross

Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart.

Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records

I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

Love the one you're with.

But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.

Sometimes you gotta take a break from all the noise to appreciate the beauty of silence.

When the image is new, the world is new.

A calendar was hung in the kitchen as if to say: Expect more of the same.

I'm happier. ... I guess I made up my mind to be that way.

The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.

Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it.

Fancy Restaurant: one that serves cold soup on purpose.

I turn now not to the Bible but to Wallace Stevens.

The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.