I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off.
I didn’t have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in front of me, it was in every nook and cranny if I wanted to seek it, but I had chosen to ignore it.
When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long – GOOD music.
I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer’s block, that writers write when they write, and when they don’t, they don’t.
Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.
Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.
When you realize that there’s a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you’ve identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.
I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you’d meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.
Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.
Also, we’re all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.
I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.
I think I’m still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.
It didn’t matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.
I didn’t really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s.
I’m still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can’t complain.
If that’s what you’re thinking, then don’t even question it. Go let your freak flag fly, brother.
You instinctively know that nothing will ever be the same, and you have to carry that knowledge around with you like a huge weight. The next time you see your girl, you can’t look her straight in the eyes the same way you did for all those years.
I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.
I plan to surf more – learn the way of the wave.
Buddhism helps me to have a healthy relationship with my body and spirit.