In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.

God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

I'm amazed that I can still play really. But I can.

I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.

Anything can happen, Pet. If there's one thing for certain, it's that nothing is for certain.

Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

When you watch the game, be a student of the game.

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God.

There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.

If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.

Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.