I don't wanna be a rock star. I don't believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I've avoided that really well.

I'm the gun guy, a loud guitar Dirty Harry with a ponytail.

I never thought too highly of anyone foolish enough to take on the nickname of a life-destroying dope product and promote such family-destroying conduct on stage.

I didn't invent the middle finger, but I perfected the use of it.

Real Americans don't back down.

The best musicians in the world were raised on the same kind of music I was raised on and that is black, soulful, authoritative, ultra-tight, ferocious, uppity, defiant music that from the Howlin' Wolf, the Muddy Waters, the Lightnin' Hopkins, the Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Little Richard.

I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.