It's been up to me to inspire me.

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There's one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.

Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?

Only those person who learned to like themselves can be generous and friendly with others.

MELODYLong chorus, pierce the night.Noon for crickets.

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale.

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

There is a war being waged right now on prayer and religion by liberals who are taking every opportunity to make America as God-less as possible.

The music has had a certain quality that people like just because it's a real true expression of how we are as musicians.

When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.

The ancient Egyptians used to say: if you say a man's name, he is alive. I take this opportunity to say, Jim Morrison.

anyway. Leo said, I hope you've got your worksheet, 'cause I used mine for spit wads days ago. Why are you looking at me like that? Somebody draw on my face again?