What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.

I'm more interested in what I'm going to leave behind me than in making a big hit record. I've refined what I do for a long time. If getting better at it means it goes over the heads of those who only wanted to party, then so be it.

I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.

I always tell my kids, "Find something that you love and within that you'll find some job that you can do and you'll always be happy. You'll go to a job that you want to go to."

I always liked the idea of the guitar - because cowboys played the guitar.

Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress.

When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.