So many things can get you high, I'm gonna try them all just once before I die.

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.

Stop looking out, start looking in. Be your own best friend. Stand up and say, hey, this is mine!

Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.

When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now."

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

You could be in the gutter and fall in love with someone, and you feel great. That's my honest opinion. I've witnessed both sides of that fence and being in love is where it's at.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

I've always been kind of a speed demon.

Spending time with her father was like showering with a cheese grate - it got more painful each time.

I always wanted to be a blonde, and it was really cool to do that for a while.

I was always a thin kid; I was an athlete.

[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident.

A list is only as strong as its weakest link.

The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

I'd like to introduce a man with a lot of charm, talent, and wit. Unfortunately, he couldn't be here tonight, so instead . . .

They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.

Money is the currency of life because it is the external measurement system that all of us have as to how we judge where we are in our own lives.