My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.

Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.

There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.

I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.

The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.

My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

Catching up with the end result is never final, until it is, upon death.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.

What is certainly true is that the United States has to have a presence to promote the values that we care about.

I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

Brooklyn is the only place where a guy can open up a candy store sell no candy and gross over eight million dollars a year.

We're sisters, we're roommates, we're all that.

I enjoyed [Celebrity Ghost Stories]. I never thought in a million years that I would tell people that I saw a ghost. And I've seen a lot of ghosts.