We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions, personalities, it just became too much.

Some of the best stuff can be written out of dire times

I hate to take showers! Guitarists don't like showers 'cause we like the grease to build up on our fingers, makes playing more fluid.

There's nothing like throwing up out a bus door, going sixty-five miles an hour.

The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from.

Music gave me something to do in my life.

The heart of service is grace of belonging.

In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness.

I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.

I've always lived by the creed that you're never a failure in life when you fall as long as you try and get up.

Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

I have always been into music ever since I was a kid.

For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.