Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wives’ tale blues riff begins with “Woke up this mornin’. . . .

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.

I said the same things to Axl [Rose] that everyone said to me when me and Joe Perry were fighting.

I hate it when people say that they don't like 'MMMBop.' Everyone likes 'MMMBop.' Whether they like it or not, the song rocks.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

I can't live off the ego.