I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.

The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing.

Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.

If tears were liquor/ I'd have drunk myself sick.

I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person.

When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously.

I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing...well, if you have a bootleg, then I did it.

You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

They say you should treat your body like a temple. I treat mine like a fast-moving dumpster.

I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.

Common people are merely intent on spending time - whoever has some talent, on making use of it.

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.

People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years.

What we've inherited from our ancestors has never existed to this extent before. And if we fail to preserve it, it will never, ever exist again. So we cannot fail.

Learn as much as you can about your proposed business. Ask questions. Join industry associations. Study successful competitors carefully.

I've seen the film. And I'll tell you this, I'm glad Chuck Yeager isn't running for President.