It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

It doesn't take much to be good, but it takes a lot to be real good.

If you're really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.

ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.

Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.

The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.

Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Fast fashion communicates to a different audience, to a younger audience.

When two people meet, as long as there is any form of rapport maintained, the person with the most certainty will eventually influence ther other person.

Having a phobia has changed me.