My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.

I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records.

I don't spend as much time on my hair as people think. I get out of the shower, whack some grease on there and I'm done.

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

I believe the angels listen, God hears us pray. And I believe in a beautiful day.

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.

I keep things pretty simple.

I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand clothes. No stylist dresses me although I do have a woman that assists me with the buttons.

Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just feel like I get to sing, you know. It's fun.

The modern man is usually in a hurry to get to a destination from which he will sooner or later suffer from and at times complain about boredom.

What a man need is simply and solely independence volition, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health." - City of Bones (said by Jace Wayland)

We do what we have to so we can do what we want to.

Saying you love someone is a good thing.

When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.

The EU should help the emergence of "organized multipolarity" in the currently non-polar world.

Making music is a wonderful way to spend your life, but do it for the love before a career. Enjoy it.

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!