I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

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.

People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.

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

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