I am a cross between Carl Perkins and Led Zeppelin.

I am a cross between Carl Perkins and Led Zeppelin.

A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job.

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

I don't know who's left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, we've got it. My band rocks, and I plan to keep doing it 'till nobody shows up to see it anymore.

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

Wherever there are rock 'n' rollers, we'll play. That's what we've been doing for more than 30 years - rock 'n' roll. It's made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.

We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put our energy to show that we were growing, and as we started to achieve this, people came to hear us musically.

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness.

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

I've always taken direction pretty well.

I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.

I think you're working and learning until you die.

What happens in the context of war is that, in order for you to make a child into a killer, you destroy everything that they know, which is what happened to me and my town. My family was killed, all of my family, so I had nothing.

The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.

Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes the subconscious identically creates.

The human quality Degas most admired was endurance.

We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.

Well I think always, when you remake films, I always think the first one is most original, authentic.

There's not enough competition and innovation in healthcare.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

I have really sensitive skin, so all I use is Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser and Moisturizing Cream, and then during the day, I'll use CeraVe with SPF, but nothing crazy. My skin also gets really dry, so I do a mask from time to time - or if my skin is feeling dull, then I'll put one on.

We cannot be unclean and expect the help of the Almighty.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

The nature of the music business is such that it's better to have a few chances for some things to be successful than just one, and that's kind of been my attitude all along.

You can work really hard on your physicality, on your craft, on the films you do. You can choose the best of directors, the best of productions, get the best technicians, you can put your entire body and soul into the making of a film, but at the end of the day, it all depends on the mood of that one audience member that goes into that theater.

The sound of a mother's voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

I wouldn't abandon nobody. I would be lying if I said I was just talking to everybody.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

If a trainstation is where the train stops whats a workstation

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.