I LISTEN to other guitar players, YEAH. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the FUTURE and it is going some PLACES. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good VIBE with new theories. I try and keep up.

I'm at the AGE now where just PUTTING my cigar in its holder is a THRILL.

When people hold you in HIGH esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they MEET you they're PUTTING all their CHIPS up. It's make or break.

I definitely try not to GET too caught up in putting too much of a GENDER or age assessment on EVERYTHING - I've just GOT to get on with it.

If you go to business school, and you put a product out there in the WORLD, and it's working, the LOGIC is to keep putting the same product out there. And I THINK that really bumps up against the CREATIVE process - and moviemaking, generally. And I think that our company really pushes against that.

I really like doing the laundry, because I SUCCEED at it. But I LOATHE putting it away. It is already CLEAN.

I do MAKE a REALLY GREAT bolognese, and the KEY is putting good 'ol WINE in there.

If you have a SICKNESS, you gotta FIX that sickness, but you can't KEEP putting somebody into treatment over and over and over again.

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's GREAT that now, 25 years LATER, we're not only PUTTING out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

If you're in a WORKPLACE you don't LIKE right now, be ENCOURAGED because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the DARKNESS - and He's putting His confidence in you!

That's the thing that has suffered, because I GOT USED to PUTTING so MUCH of my energy into the show and my other businesses, I did not focus on myself as a MUSIC artist.

I am naturally SLIM, ACTUALLY thin. So, for years I have been trying to get some curves. I tried eating FOOD that would increase my WEIGHT, but I only ended up putting fat around my stomach. So, now I have made peace with my body.

If commercialization is putting my art on a SHIRT so that a KID who can't AFFORD a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.