I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

We don't know whether or not it's the Farewell Tour odr the Jews in Space Tour, which I prefer as a title.

My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons.

My parents thought art was important and a lot of my childhood was spent doing some form of it or another.

I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?

If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that's the real joy.

I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world.

Chopin was a master of melody, harmony and voice leading - the art of smoothly moving from chord to chord.

We're a band that really... It's important to us to write music and put it out there and to work together.

My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.

It depends on the time of the year and who I've been talking to, I try to put people in the studio I like.

I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.

Well, I've had to deal with everything in my life... leavin' the family, learnin' what not and what to do.

The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.

As I've learned in the past few years, Mali is home to some of the most incredible musicians in the world.

Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life.

That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale.

I love being a dad. I'd have more kids if I could. I'd take a couple more, one or two more before I croak.

Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves.

I think I was nervous enough, even at 3:00 a.m., that you could hear my heart beating over the microphone.

Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.

Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.

Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.

Don't let anyone make you feel like you're not good enough, smart enough or cool enough. Do your own thing.

Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.

There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.

I love voyaging - the longest has been 3,000 miles to Hawaii. I've also spent weeks all over the Caribbean.

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

As I'd go out learning to surf, I'd feel the power of waves coming over my body. It's like you're with God.

I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.

I would have loved to have been two people, but I was determined not to devote my entire life to my career.

I don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up.

I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

I wanted to go to Berklee College of Music because that's where Steve Vai went - I was total tunnel vision.

We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.

I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time

With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.

A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

If you don't have a great chorus, write a good bridge first. I often do that and find I write good bridges.

I always said as long as I had enough money to feed myself and have a place to eat then I'd be doing music.

You look out in our audiences, you don't see a sea of white-haired people. You see a lot of younger people.

Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds.

Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too.

There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.

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