I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.

I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing.

My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.

When I'm with Purple, I'm totally with Purple; when I'm doing my thing, I'm totally doing my own thing.

I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.

I can't do anything but play guitar.

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.

I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.

I don't like English bands. They're too structured.

When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.

Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

The happiness you are seeking is not to be found in the flow of life, but in your attitude toward whatever life brings.

The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games.

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.