For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

I've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a dead audience you're gonna stink. If we play for a great crowd we're much better. You want 'em to make noise. It's kinda like sex, if they don't make noise, you ain't doin' it right.

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.

If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.

I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.

I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.