Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

It doesn't take much to be good, but it takes a lot to be real good.

If you're really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.

ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.

The Warrior of the Light meditates.

I'd like a nice piece of salmon that's not too pink inside and yet isn't too dry or crisp either.

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.

I would keep in mind to a young poet that you are entering into something that is very important, that has always been important in terms of human concerns.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth.

When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

I thought I was the last American weirdo then I met Chris Chandler.

Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.