Everybody wants to change the world. But I guess how we want to change it is a little bit more quietly than other bands.

Those are the magical songwriting moments, when you have a partner that clicks like that. That's a dream come true, man.

I don't want to try to force anything, because I'm really happy with Chickenfoot; my new record with them is phenomenal.

My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water.

I don't like to use a microphone around my head while I'm teaching so I had to learn how to project from my stomach more.

To the general public in America, the lifespan of Deep Purple probably finished with our 1984 album, 'Perfect Strangers.'

I feel like everybody's got their health issues and their battles, and yeah, mine go up and down. It's never really over.

Today is a new day. A New opportunity to get better stronger faster smarter and closer to your goals and dreams. Take it.

I love that [ late-50s Verve recordings] - to me, that's the epitome of vocal jazz. It's my favorite style and era of it.

My intellect was quickened at divinity school, and my abilities to discern were strengthened, and that's always valuable.

When you’re in love, it’s not just about the messing around in the sack, it’s about how empty you feel when they’re gone.

We've played in the North and in the South, and it seems like the young people around America just want to feel good now.

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

I think my first musical memory is actually listening to Billie Holiday. I think I must have been, like, 3 or 4 years old.

It's easy to get tired of religious fundamentalists. They're such a bore. They have no sense of mystery. It's a drag, man.

Sometimes being an artist means knowing when to let someone see something in you that is there that you can't hear or see.

There is something f-king unbelievable about seeing all of the fans go crazy and chanting 'Ozzy!' I would pay to see them.

I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.

I think you have to want to be really famous. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.

Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.

When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.

My aunts lived on liquor and seldom felt like eating much. I don't know what's wrong about a kid stealing when he's hungry.

I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.

Every morning just before breakfast I don't want no coffee or tea, just me and my good Buddy Wieser, that's all I ever need.

Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.

Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.

The musicians in Chicago gave me my vocation, but New York calls to a jazz musician, for sure. You want to test your mettle.

Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above. We'll find happiness together in the summer skies of love.

Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there's no excuse for being cruel, even if you're a bored teenage kid.

I don't forget what I used to do and so I can't justifiably say to my kid, "Don't you do that," when I used to do it myself.

Still, one of the few good things about being dyslexic is that when I say I don’t read reviews, I mean I don’t read reviews.

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

During recording I was into yoga hard and I was very sober and clear minded. But when I went to mix I took a break from that.

There's a very collaborative, collective attitude. That's a very female principle. We try to nurture that aspect of the band.

I just suddenly thought, people really get off on being scared. They pay money to see green foam come out of people's mouths.

If you have a higher reason ... than just to make money... it will bring you longer fulfillment. And it won't feel like work.

You may have crap that wants to drag you down, but if you really like what you're doing, then there's always a silver lining.

I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

I've dealt with a lot of bullshit because of the way I look and a lot of misconceptions about what people should be afraid of.

I suppose there's a lot of people that've got a better life than me. But I don't know, I feel very fortunate and very blessed.

I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

God talks to His people-to each one of us-through His Word, through the counsel of godly friends, and through the Holy Spirit.

My worst fashion failure was when I wore tight PVC pants, and I had a show in Eugene, Oregon... my pants split down the center.

Rock music is stronger than sports. That's why. Rock rules. Around the world, who's more famous: Willie Mays or Paul McCartney?

I love extended solos. I used to like them in the old days a lot, because it used to give me time to go to the pub for a drink.

The one thing nobody was taught was how to deal with success, and I think that happens to everyone who makes it at a young age.

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

I can sing these tunes the rest of my life, but when you get the four of us together, it's magical onstage. That's Motley Crüe.

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