You can create art that makes people feel better.

I think as a human being, if you can do something to impact someone's life, that's about the greatest accomplishment you can have.

A band is like a family. There's love and hate.

Have pride and entertainment. I think that a lot bands just don't know how to do it anymore or they lost interest in it or don't care and are just cashing a paycheck.

Music crosses cultures and language barriers and it makes people feel good.

Music is a potent energy force.

Just ask yourself what record you played over and over again when you were depressed or what record made you really happy? Those will never change and you should never be embarrassed by it.

People tend to forget that we tie our life history to music like the soundtrack to your life in many more ways than just having a hit record on the radio.

I'm a blues guy and I listen to blues all the time and blues is timeless.

The longer you live, the longer you hear the repetitiveness of things. So, it's hard to get excited about new stuff.

If you're asking me have I purchased a CD, a DVD or downloaded a current artist? The answer is no.

We were in recycling before recycling was cool.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

The only war is the war against the imagination.

Life is bigger than our explanations of it. To be in touch with life, go beyond your explanations.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

Birds and the people who love freedom have something common: They must fly freely to feel that they are alive!

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.

Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.

You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.