Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.

Those of us with a microphone who are blessed with the gift of being in the public eye have a special opportunity to give voice to all those groups whose activism is sometimes ignored or put on the back pages with the the dumbing down of television and the tabloidization of journalism. As Ralph Nader called it, "sound barks," not even sound bites.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we're all going, "God, what a jerk I've been," "How could I have married that guy?" or "How could I have done this or that?" With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, "It wasn't all about them."

I thought I had to live that partying lifestyle in order to be authentic, but in fact if you keep it up too long, all you're going to be is sloppy or dead.

There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything