Everlast

“A lot of Neil Young songs were emulated, in my early days. A lot of his songs, some of his best songs, are extremely simple, and I learned a lot of lessons from that. Like you know don't try to be overly - don't overstep what you need, don't do too much. The song will tell you what it needs.”

“I'm a good rhythm guitarist and that's it.”

“I'm much more adaptable as an individual than a label would be.”

“The whole thing about 'What It's Like' was an accident. There were no expectations, and I had nothing to lose.”

“I had money in the bank and a $100,000 car, women left and right, everything that you think you want. And then just sitting there being like, 'Why am I unhappy?' Finally that voice that talks to you, the voice said, 'Well, basically you're unhappy because you're living foul and you're not trying to do anything about it.'”

“If you believe a good review, then you have to believe the bad one.”

“Glasgow is just magic.”

“I don't want to follow the same old cookie-cutter ways of getting people's attention.”

“Even after my family moved West, I would come back to Long Island as a teenager, stay with aunts and go to the city to look at graffiti and chase down the b-boy culture.”

“In subliminal ways, every song I do, there's something in it that I can attach to hip-hop directly.”

“When a bunch of people get together and are spiritual and they feel good about each other, great things can happen.”

“Every time I see cats buck up in Europe and have a mass protest, even riots, I'm like, at least their young people are motivated to try something.”

“I've got some Johnny Cash in me and I've also got some Run DMC in me.”

“To be Elvis one day and not the next. I'd rather not be Elvis at all.”

“I think the majority of my music is dark, but the reason it's tolerable is that there's always a little bit of hope in even the darkest things.”

“I've looked death in the face, I'm not obsessed with it, but it is a relevant topic for me.”

“Everybody knows that House Of Pain - St. Patty's Day is off limits. We do what we want to do that day.”

“I make a pretty good living compared to most Americans, but I don't hang out with a lot of people who aren't blue collar.”

“In rap all these cats were coming up with Italian Mafioso names, all these aliases of Italian mobsters. And it struck me as funny, because if you watch mob movies, they don't hold a very high opinion of black people. And I thought if I was gonna do it, I'd be real. And the name that popped into my head was Whitey Ford.”

“I've had a lot of good moments, the Grammys, 'SNL.'”