People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.

God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

I'm amazed that I can still play really. But I can.

In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.

I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

We find happiness doing what we love.

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.

Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.

Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. It would look ridiculous to do what we're doing now when I'm 40. That's why I want to destroy my career before it's too late.

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his most endearing qualities.

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.