While I was in Montrose, the publishing checks went into the band's coffers. This was our management's decision; we were just financing ourselves on the road.

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.

Only fools neglect the living God – the Human Self, while running after imaginary shadows.

Don't waste time making enemies. As long as you're active, you'll have plenty.

Self-respect--the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added the layers of people who are in my life, and built up the songs.

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

People are shaped by friendship as much as by romance.

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

I put myself in the hands of Christ, who is the true leader of the church.

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.