You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.

That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.

I'm doing the best I can with what I got and that's all anybody in my band is doing.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

Times change and you have to adapt.

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.

When power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.

Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers.

Get your facts first and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

As a personal matter I don't give a damn where mosques, churches, temples or other religious shrines and symbols are built as long as they don't tear down decent saloons in the process.

Great speakers are not born, they're trained.

All actors think every job will be their last.

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

Sooner or later, everybody pays the Piper!

And he left. I watched him walk out – he didn’t say good-bye, he didn’t even look back. It scared me, how easy it was for him to do that.

Nobody feels anybody else's pains because they're not their.