My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.

I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing.

My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.

When I'm with Purple, I'm totally with Purple; when I'm doing my thing, I'm totally doing my own thing.

I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.

I can't do anything but play guitar.

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.

I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.

I don't like English bands. They're too structured.

When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.

God is in desperate search for those sons he could send to the world of sports to rule and manage it for him

Electricity for example was considered a very Satanic thing when it was first discovered and utilized.

Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.

Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

Today we are all Egyptians.

It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].

Who's to say what would have happened if I had trusted my instincts and moved to New York like I thought I would.