I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.

Stop looking out, start looking in. Be your own best friend. Stand up and say, hey, this is mine!

Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.

When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now."

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

So many things can get you high, I'm gonna try them all just once before I die.

It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

You could be in the gutter and fall in love with someone, and you feel great. That's my honest opinion. I've witnessed both sides of that fence and being in love is where it's at.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

Dare to be different.

Never put off writing until you are better at it.

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

That's no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That's not gonna swing, is it?

What men deny is not God, but some preposterous idol of the imagination.

You can't separate the mind and body. It's impossible.

I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.