I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.

Beware of pretty faces that you find, a pretty face can hide an evil mind.

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.

All summer long we spent dancin' in the sand, and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.

The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.

I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.

About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.

I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.

Some people are just like snake, they will never understand your love.

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

My strength would be my honesty and my passion towards my work.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty

If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.

We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.

If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.

Giving up is something a Lauda doesn't do.

My musical style has changed dramatically from my first album until now. That's the real developmental shift. But my clothing has pretty much stayed the same. The important thing is to be real.

Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.