God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

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

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.

I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

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

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

No one spoke more about hell than Jesus did, and the hell He came to save men from was not only a hell on earth . . .it was something to come.

The best way to uncolor the Negro is to give the white man a white heart.

I actually have no aspirations to ride a motorcycle ever again. Its exhausting. You get cold.

('Eraserhead') may seem like a dark film, but my father and I watch it, and all we do is laugh. It was Disneyland everyday on the set. That's when I fell in love with film.

The Beatles had an influence on everybody. You have to realize what an incredible explosion the Beatles were.

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

The pathway to your best life isn't the route of denial. It's owning every moment.

God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.

But do not look down on even the most minute of things; for with the coming of daybreak, even the tiniest particles of dust in this world sing and dance in the sunlight.

Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.