When I first colored my hair, my mother loved it. I got kicked out of school when I was 15, just for my hair.

I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing.

My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.

When I'm with Purple, I'm totally with Purple; when I'm doing my thing, I'm totally doing my own thing.

I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.

I can't do anything but play guitar.

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.

I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.

I don't like English bands. They're too structured.

When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.

I like a quiet life, you know me.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

I dont make it a practice to respond to reports in the social media but occasionally it is necessary.

No one likes the house next door to look worse or a lot better than his own.

I've often stopped working for long periods.

Second-wave feminists didn't look for an overthrow of patriarchy. Instead, they analyzed what they were up against and fought it in all of its varied manifestations.

But you can't stop knowing something, can you?

[Jerry Brown] is California's way of celebrating the Year of the Child.

Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.