Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

When something is not good, it's bad. Period

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.

No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.

I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

I think about my family first. I want my family to not want for anything. I would like to make sure they have no worries.

You can't direct without a good crew.

We don't have to wait for the right circumstances to have happiness.

Every traditional ways in politics that you get rid of an enemy has not worked on Donald Trump.

The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The collage as a flexible hieroglyph language of juxtaposition: A collage makes a statement.