I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.

I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.

Never allow your short term temperament to affect your long term decisions.

When you give the love, you gain the heart.

Your personal declaration of will is the first step in a seemingly impossible journey.

A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it's full.

The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief.

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.

We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don’t waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.

He [William Henry Harrison] did not live long enough to prove his incapacity for the office of President.