The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.

Nobody's perfect. Everyone slides here and there, and they have their ups and downs. When they are down, that is not the time to step all over them.

The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.

We are doing what Prince did. Everyone that comes to a show billed as An Evening with Journey will get our new CD. We figured that is our best store because they are our biggest fans.

I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.

I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts.

I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.

Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.

What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end.

I'm just getting older and better.

I've never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that.

Each time a flower blooms, the world is reminded that there is beauty in new beginnings.

Feminism was good for me, as were any number of causes, but as I developed as a thinking person, the truisms and dogmas of every ideology became as worn as that book's cover.

Sometimes, what holds us back is a childish notion that there is danger in our success.

I never really know what I'm playing. I just follow what sounds good in my head and keep going.

The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?

Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.

My accountancy experience could come in handy if ever I find myself in the right position. For now, I'm very happy to write.

Being old is such a treat!

I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against principles.

Let God enlarge you when you are going through distress. He can do it. You can't do it, and others can't do it for you.