Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

It doesn't take much to be good, but it takes a lot to be real good.

If you're really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.

ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".

White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.

Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….

He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate. Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin.

In any given situation you will find only what you bring with you...

For God’s kingdom to be established there is a prototype

I'm going to be honest, I would love for Flava Flav to be president. It would bring a lot of excitement to the country.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.