I've been in this business so long, it just doesn't faze me. I know what's going to happen before it happens.

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.

It pisses me off, people are idiots, but what are you going to do? The world is full of idiots. That's why we'll never have flying cars. People don't know how to drive

You've got Corey Feldman doing his thing, and the problem is, they're trying to be pop stars. You can't compare Salty to any of the other actors out there playing music

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.

All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap.

I don't think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess.

I'm the guy who will eat something that looks nice when I'm out, but when I take it home in a doggie bag, it'll sit in the back of my refrigerator until it starts to move.

I'm not a big radio guy, I don't listen to whatever is the hip new thing.

You may look normal like everyone else, but you're not. Not on the inside.

[Speaking about writing her first novel] You have to be passionate enough about it and I was.

The calm serenity of the breeze as it blows across the ocean releases the tangled web within my mind.

People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're the ones that go back into the editing room and reassemble the film.

I am a lineman for the county.

At my age, I'm just happy to be named the greatest living anything.

Revolution is obstructed evolution.

I have a history of saving animals. I started years ago with a cow.

Sheer madness is, of course, the highest possible brow in humor.