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.

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.

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

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

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.

It's just like an alcoholic to think he's doing the Zombie Apocalypse wrong.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain.

I've learned to accept birth and death . . . but sometimes I still worry about what lies between.

All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.

Learn from your mistakes, trying to figure out what the best way to go forward is.

Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.

As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets.