Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.

My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.

It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.

I'm not saying I wouldn't play a seven-string. It's just that I've never needed one. Most dudes who play seven-strings don't sound any different than someone playing a six-string that's tuned down.

To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that.

A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.

Why do people believe what they read in the newspapers, but question what they read in the Bible?

You want to lay yourself out like an appetizer, go ahead.

I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble.

Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.

We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again. But it doesn't make you a terrible person. That's important to me.

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.

Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.

My problems are as light as a feather because god carries them for me