Hendrix inspired me, but I was still more into Wes Montgomery. I was also into the Allman Brothers around the time of those albums.

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

When something is not good, it's bad. Period

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

You're not allowed to have legs and not use them.Dance.

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.

I have great respect for Angela Merkel, even if we have a lot of differences.

Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

I'm the worst critic about music myself. I hardly ever, every like something the first time I listen to it. So I've got to put myself in other people's shoes.

I grew up a Phillies fan. Me and my buddies tailgated a couple of times when they won the World Series. I like just being in that atmosphere.

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.

We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit—