Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.

Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

Dark master of sin, now my soul is yours.

Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.

I remember feeling for the first time going somewhere where I was part of a community where I didn't feel like an outcast. I felt like I belonged. Everyone had a guitar strapped to their back.

You try to play the song better than you had before.

If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.

We're always in that head space about the audience and less about us at that moment.

I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.

I don't have very eclectic tastes in music.

Obviously [Black] Sabbath is definitely a huge name and of course deserving with Ozzy coming back.

A river flow freely from its source.

Truthfully, she was the best thing in his life and he was a complete idiot if he let her walk away from him.

Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?

Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

There is a lot of information out there. To the degree that your life changes, it is made useful or useless.

A lot of young people think they're invincible, but the truth is young people are knuckleheads... Now young people can get insurance for as little as $50 a month, less than the cost of gym shoes.

When you go searching, you never know what you will find.

For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.