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

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

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.

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.

We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

It's easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership.

There was a time when if you had a financial crisis in Southeast Asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets. Today it does.

The written word is everything.

He would, wouldn't he?

When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.