The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.

Stop looking out, start looking in. Be your own best friend. Stand up and say, hey, this is mine!

Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.

When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now."

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

So many things can get you high, I'm gonna try them all just once before I die.

It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

You could be in the gutter and fall in love with someone, and you feel great. That's my honest opinion. I've witnessed both sides of that fence and being in love is where it's at.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.

Like light and shadow, love and hate were inseparable. One could not exist without the other.

The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

Refrain from reckless and thoughtless actions. Be as calm and judicious as a mountain.

If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.

All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.

That's the thing about faith. It works.

I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met.

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.