The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

So I bought a forty-four magnum, it was solid steel cast, and in the blessed name of Elvis, well I just let it blast 'til my TV lay in pieces.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.