Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king
It's probably listening to country music that got me to start playing a lot cleaner, not as distorted.
Berry's On Top is probably my favorite record of all time; it defines rock and roll. A lot of people have done Chuck Berry songs, but to get that feel is really hard. It's the rock and roll thing-the push-pull and the rhythm of it.
I don't need to speak. . . I play the guitar!
I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.
Steven and I stood on the stage at the Boston Garden after the Stones had just played there and the stage was still up. We had been playing cards, maybe a high-school dance, to 400 or 500, maybe a thousand. We just stood on the stage and thought, 'Well,man,maybe someday. ' In 4 years that was OUR stage.
If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored. . . and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!
The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.
I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.
If there be any who nurture in their hearts the poisonous brew of enmity toward another, I plead with you to ask the Lord for strength to forgive. This expression of desire will be of the very substance of your repentance. It may not be easy, and it may not come quickly. But if you will seek it with sincerity and cultivate it, it will come. And even though he whom you have forgiven continues to pursue and threaten you, you will know you have done what you could to effect a reconciliation. There will come into your heart a peace otherwise unattainable.
Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes.