I've been touted for my guacamole. I'll stand by my method. People have asked me to come to their home and prepare it. Restaurants have asked me about it.

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

It doesn't take much to be good, but it takes a lot to be real good.

If you're really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.

ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.

When you want something done, you ask a man. When you want it done quietly and without any fuss, you ask a woman.

If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders. You can't do that, and they should not be held there. They need rehabilitative therapy.

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.

There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

NASA is moving the space program to Starkville because it has no atmosphere.

i have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.