Jimi... He was the gov'nor and that's it. He was brilliant, wasn't he?

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

When something is not good, it's bad. Period

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

Passion for knowledge, motivation for continuous learning.

This is it. This is how I always saw heaven, always by the sea, always by night, always in the dark.

I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.

I am a pretty crazy person, so it's best for me to be on my own most of the time.

Yes, its one of the basic truths of the universe,....Things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again.

One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you from the beginning." Memoir From Antproof Case

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me.

The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

To live with integrity in an unjust society we must work for justice. To walk with integrity through a landscape strewn with beer cans, we must stop and pick them up.