I don't use the twang bar anymore. It's become too popular.

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.

Life itself is the best (and the only) timekeeper.

Obviously it’s hard for anyone to imagine, but these dance halls were powder kegs just waiting to erupt. Names were made and reputations were enhanced or blown in a flash!

I feel like I've been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It's all you want, but it's terrifying.

Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Just because you miss someone doesn't mean you need them back in your life. Missing is just a part of moving on.

I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em.

Cause for a moment a band of theives in ripped up jeans got to rule the world!

Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.