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

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.

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.

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

Sometimes divorce isn’t an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it’s just two people waking up out of a fog.

In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied

Only the moon's smile can cure the unseen scars of darkness

Leaders should not stand in front of people. They should stand behind the people.

For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

If you don't ever get out of your comfort zone you will never make it to the end zone!.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt, food was more important than a woman's suffering.

As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.

I believe that it is impossible to end hatred with hatred.