“I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.”

“Well I won't back downNo I won't back downYou can stand me up at the gates of hellBut I won't back down”

“I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.”

“Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.”

“You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.”

“The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It's in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it.”

“I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.”

“I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.”

“What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back you have to be a kind of team going through life. ”

“When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.”

“TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.”