Musician

Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed.

With life and grandkids and the whole thing, every day is busy, but I'm so thankful to God that I'm still here.

We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.

As long as the fans keep wanting to hear new records from us every few years, we'll keep making them.

Man, I love Limp Bizkit, Johnny Lange, many people.

Jacksonville back in the 1960s was kind of a redneck town. There were only two or three places where you could play our kind of hard rock - or 'hippie music' as it was called back then. You had to go to Georgia or some place else.

We're not preachers, but we say, 'Let's try and change things.'

All we lived for was playing and being out on the road. That was our dream, and it came true.

Our redneck reputation back then was originally just because we had long hair. Back in the '60s and the early '70s, in the South that was kind of a no-no. At all the Army and Navy bases we'd play, we would get into fights with the soldiers over our hair. But I think our music overshadowed everything else.

Everybody's got a right to their own opinion, you know?

I've always used the Peavey Mace equipment. I've got a few of them. They're kind of like Marshalls. You know, we used to use Marshalls, but Peaveys just seem to last longer and push the sound better.

I think that 'God & Guns' turned out a little more 'country' than we wanted it to be.

Through the years, people like the KKK and skinheads kinda kidnapped the Dixie or Southern flag from its tradition and the heritage of the soldiers.

I've always heard that the reason you fall is to get back up and keep going. So when that happens, or life throws you bad breaks or curves or deals you the wrong hand, all I've ever known is to keep going.

I love Eric Clapton and what he did with Cream; 'Spoonful' and 'Crossroads,' those are probably the coolest solos.

I just take every day on faith.

You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.

The first time we ever used the Dixie flag for our backdrop was actually when we went over to Europe in 1970. It looked good, so we all liked it. We never meant any racial things by it.

We travel all over the world, and it seems like the South is the place where the people are nicest and they think of the fellow man more.

Buffalo Springfield had three guitar players, and we thought they were so cool. So we started doing the three-guitar thing, and people started calling us the 'guitar army' and all this stuff.