I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.

I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing.

My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.

When I'm with Purple, I'm totally with Purple; when I'm doing my thing, I'm totally doing my own thing.

I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.

I can't do anything but play guitar.

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.

I don't like English bands. They're too structured.

When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.

I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.

By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing.And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying.Lady make note of this --One of you is lying.

What a man believes he will die for. What a man merely thinks he will change his mind about.

Where the mind goes energy flows.

Let's stand up for taxpayers, let's stand up for consumers, and let's stand up for small businesses, which create most of the jobs in America.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.

I don't think I'd have done comedy if I was born eighty years ago I'd have been a lord. Shooting people that were on my land With a wig, yeah. And some crisps.

It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.

I have spent my whole life educating myself.

Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.