You gotta know who you are, I think, as a person, I'm a laidback guy. I'm very simple. It's simplicity with me. Everything else, having the 10 cars or the 20 cars is ludicrous.

The only way to handle pressure is to apply it.

Actually I feel I'm a better player; more mentally. I guess you get better with age people say. You have a lot more wisdom.

You just never know with contract situations and the whole business side of it. I'm here now and I'm happy to be here now. The future will take care of itself.

I've always been humble and this even humbled me even more to definitely get a second chance at my career. There are still chapters I'm writing in this legacy.

Just relief of trying to get there for eight years. It's finally here and I'm very excited. It's just great. It's been a long ride.

If you must walk in someone's shadow make sure it's your own

Every work of art tells a story.

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.

First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.

The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings.

The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

Initially, in starting to pick the songs for the live show, it was really a matter of picking songs that I loved over the years. As far as the album goes, it happened very naturally.

To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.