I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

Paddy Eagan, stay away from falling signs for a bit and you'll be as right as rain come the weekend.

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

She had other friends--friends that wouldn't leave her. She had the cats.

I keep six honest serving-men they taught me all I know their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who

I'm drunk. Correct. What the f*** is it to you?

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

I don't like fashion. It's very heartless.

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

Have "eternal wait," infinite patience. When you have infinite patience, you will realize God belongs to you. Either through awareness or through practice you reach the same spot.