I've always recorded the same way. I put down as many ideas as I have, then strip them away at the mixdown. It's better to have too much music than not enough.

It's impossible to compare two bands. It would be like comparing two lovers.

I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.

I have never been sexually aroused by a man. But I have yet to kiss Johnny Depp, so you never know.

I grew up listening to albums by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and they all worked on that multi-layered level.

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.

I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.

So as long as I can do the music or create, I'll feel fine.

And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.

I've done a lot of talk shows where you can tell that the host is just thinking about what he wants to say next while you're answering him and that's really uncomfortable.

I'm thrilled I have the opportunity to do the Spread show and have the terrific sponsors that we work with like Nikon or Verizon.

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Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.

We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.

This young century will be liberty's century.

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order.

Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.

He tells me that the best man I will ever find will be attracted to other women. I hear this as another fact I am too old not to know. More proof of how unprepared I am to love anyone.

In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.

Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.