I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour.
I didn't cheer in high school. I was the farthest thing from a cheerleader in high school. We made fun of cheerleaders. Everybody did!
I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.
I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the world.
I much prefer the road. My thing is getting live in front of people. There is a sterile environment to a studio that doesn't make me let go.
I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's going on.
I've learned you can't write on a computer on a bus. It jiggles too much, especially an Apple. The keyboard jiggles around too much, and there are too many typos.
There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.
I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.
One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.
I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.
When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.
I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.
Some people are probably scratching their heads and saying, How did that happen? That's because some of the media didn't give the public the full story.
About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting.
Getting married in four days was the biggest... mistake I've ever made. I have two beautiful kids, but... how can you know somebody in four days? Bonehead.
A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.
If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.
Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
