It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.

I'd definitely be into doing some zombie slaying music. That'd be cool.

Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.

I don't have any tattoos but I've thought about getting Ernie, from Bert and Ernie, on my earlobe. He made a big impression on me as a kid. And I have pretty big earlobes.

I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.

You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.

When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.

I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.

People have to do what they want to do.

Dreams are achieved by blood, sweat, tears, and an iron-will!

The restless adventurer within me stands eye-to-eye with the fear that has stepped directly in my path. And the thing I absolutely must not do is to blink first.

That was the way with folk

Chaos is peaceful when you stand quietly & watch - we are eternal observers, reflecting both tiny & vast, singing infinitely within.

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.