Everlast

“You gotta be able to face the truth of who you are. If you are not able to face that truth of who you are, you're gonna crumble, man.”

“I've been very fortunate that the pool of musicians that I know in L.A. are incredible musicians. After playing with cats for a long enough time, you learn certain cats, when you're playing, can lock in on a groove or a sound. It's unspoken. It's a language that's really unspoken.”

“I'm fortunate enough to make a great living, but I'm not out of touch with reality.”

“There's only a couple of topics that interest me: love and death. When it comes down to it, those two things say it all.”

“I get to do what I want, how I want.”

“I don't differentiate between country, rock, blues, jazz, it doesn't mean anything to me.”

“You know I've got some Waylan Jennings in me and I've also got some Eric B. & Rakim in me.”

“If you can just make people feel what you feel when you're singing, it doesn't matter if you don't hit the right notes.”

“From the richest to the poorest, and the smartest to the dumbest, everyone knows the blues.”

“People faked the funk when I was young. There just wasn't a major platform to do it on. You just kind of did it on the block.”

“I've had my heyday of debauchery.”

“I come from the blue-collared working class folk: live better, work union, all that good stuff, and I just see that eroding and disappearing in our country.”

“I'm a Hip Hop artist, but I understand why some people are confused about that because a lot of people have a very narrow definition of what Hip Hop is to them.”

“They wanted me to pick a direction - 'You can't do both rap and rock.' I was like, 'There's no reason I can't do both.'”

“I had to really find how to translate what I did in the studio on the stage and that took a while.”

“Most of the stuff I did isn't acoustic. Just guitar related.”

“Everybody dreams about writing one of those songs. I've had a lot of songs I'm proud of. A lot of them. But I think I can go to the darkest depths of Africa and go in a bar and if they have a jukebox and you play 'Jump Around,' people will react.”

“Islam is my personal relationship with God.”

“I can sell modest numbers, have fun and make good music, and still be successful.”

“I just want to go out and play to as many people as I can.”