When you are live you never know what is going to happen.

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.

I prefer playing in the studio because you have much more control over things.

When you are live you never know what is going to happen.

I love to be creative.

If you don't get on the field and play then you will be missing out.

I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.

The other thing that has made playing live for me more enjoyable is the audience. I never knew I had such heartfelt, loving fans.

In the past, I have not been able to hear myself. I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically.

In order to get somewhere in life, you need to have a vision. The vision brings you to the table. Without a vision, you just do what everybody else does and you are just there.

If everyone would look for that uniqueness then we would have a very colorful world.

If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.

Phil has always been a fighter. He was getting in fights all the time. I told him that if he ever hit me then I would leave the band. He wanted to find out if I was telling him the truth. He hit me so I left and that is how UFO split up.

Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to.

I believe that every person has uniqueness - something that nobody else has.

The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.

I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.

It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.

Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices.

I have always known that it comes from deep within myself. I always knew what sound I wanted, and how I wanted to play. I knew everything, it just had to be developed.

I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

I believe that every person has uniqueness something that nobody else has.

If you copy then it is not self expression.

If riding the bus or the subway doesn't incentivize you to improve your station in life, nothing will.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

The crowd is the same everywhere in all periods and cultures it remains essentially the same among men of the most diverse origin education and language.

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

I'm one of the few people in this world who can do anything I choose. I can't tell you how good I'm feeling.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

I cannot do business. I cannot sit and say, 'How are you, the weather's great, how's your golf?' I'm like a bull in a china shop.

I don't enjoy anything while I'm doing it. I enjoy having done things, though.

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

The most terrifying thing in the world was having to give a speech at my girlfriend's wedding. I was physically shaking and sweating the entire time.

The real war will never get in the books.

I do not believe that Obama is smarter than anybody else. I do not believe he has cut a new path and is a politician unlike any we've ever seen regarding his intellect. I don't believe any of this hocus-pocus. I didn't believe it when they said it about Hillary, Smartest Woman in the World.

I'd love to build a brand, a legacy.

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.

My natural bent is to have an overabundance of energy, and motion-capture essentializes your every breath, your every move. Seeing yourself through that mask, you realize how far you can pull back and make the performance even more powerful.

Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, 'I liked your book,' I don't know if it's going to happen again.

I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.

Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.

I would say I'm pretty minimal. Comfort is key. So during the day, it's usually, like, jeans and a sweater. But for evening wear, I'll dress up a bit.

No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.

I think getting up every morning is the most amazing thing any of us do. We know what's out there, and yet we keep going.