What I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to sell records with me?

It takes a real man to live for God-a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know? If you really want to live right these days, you gotta be tough.

This business I'm in is different. It's special. The people around me feel like brothers and sisters. We hardly know each other, but we're that close; somehow there's been an immediate bonding between total strangers. We share each other's triumphs, and when one of us gets hurt, we all bleed - it's corny, I know, but it's true. I've never experienced anything like this before. It's great. It turns up the heat in life.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town.

Burn my Flag and I will shoot you........but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American

My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.