I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.

Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair.

There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.

I was stationed at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

I always love to come to Austin.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

What is your major malfunction?

When you manage your expectations, you let yourself soak in the joy of what is actually happening around you.

«Per­ho­nen is not here any­more, » it says, with a voice made of wings and whis­pers.

The best way to break up with a girl is like I'm taking off a band-aid. Slowly and in the shower.

My motive has always been just to be who I am, and play what I love- if that doesn't get me anywhere then at least it wasn't because I tried to be something I'm not.

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

I am just trying to make the best possible case for the animals. That is clearly what I have been put on earth to do. Even after I am gone I will try to continue.

Invent. I love inventing, that's my first passion.

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.