“I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.”

God will never violate His Word, but He doesn’t seem to mind violating our understanding of His Word.

I like being feminine. I think it’s good to be feminine. We don’t need to look like men or dress like men or talk like men to be powerful. We can be powerful in our own way, our own feminine way.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.

It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.

More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.

As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions.

I am and always will be a sinner. But that’s the beautiful thing about Jesus. I’ll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I’m not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I’m holier than thou, ’cause I’m not!

The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

I’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.

That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.

It’s quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I’d rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.

Ric Flair is the greatest guy ever. He just wants to hang out, have a beer, and tell stories. He’s the coolest. I’ve never met The Rock though.

I don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.

Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn’t mean that artists from the rock n’ roll/folk-roots culture – of which he was not really a part – shouldn’t get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.

McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as much images as matériel, an aesthetic as well as a product line. It is about culture as commodity, apparel as ideology.