Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.

Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.

I like unkempt; I don't mind if I have holes in my jacket or whatever. I think people should look more the way they feel.

I'm not interested in a persona.

I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.

It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don't like the way you look.

I never thought I'd be on the cover of the 'Atlanta Journal' unless I killed someone.

How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?

In 2000, I fell in love. I had never felt anything like that before in my life. It kind of took me over.

I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.

Smile and the world smiles with you...Weep and you weep alone.

It was... the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

I feel ruefully sure, also, that one must be at least one sort of fool to rush in over ground so well trodden by the angels.

There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.

I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.

God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

When my Mama asks me will I ever change, I tell her yeah... But it's clear I will always be the same until the end of time.

Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease.