I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.

Stop looking out, start looking in. Be your own best friend. Stand up and say, hey, this is mine!

Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.

When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now."

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

So many things can get you high, I'm gonna try them all just once before I die.

It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

You could be in the gutter and fall in love with someone, and you feel great. That's my honest opinion. I've witnessed both sides of that fence and being in love is where it's at.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

Without solitude, we cannot fix the scattered pieces of our plans, hopes, wishes together.

I make the kind of music I like

As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.

If it’s meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

Often the energy of a piece is more exciting to me than the subject.

One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.