In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

I'm amazed that I can still play really. But I can.

I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.