Johnny Colt Quotes
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What else do you say to Medlocke, Rossington and Van Zant? We're talking Southern rock royalty. We're talking Lynyrd Skynyrd. The only thing out of my mouth was when and where!
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Oil's in everything we have, from anesthetics to aspirations to aspirins to most parts of the cell phone contain oil. We interface with oil in every part of our life.
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I had left the music business and became a conflict journalist. The conflict journalism started for me in the Gulf and the oil spill. When Skynyrd needed a new bass player, they knew me from the Black Crowes.
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If the Pacific took Nauru, it'd wash away one of the strangest and most troubled places on Earth.
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The news of Mubarak stepping down came as I was sitting in my Jordanian home away from home.
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I had a deal with CNN and had no intention of going back to the music business, but you know, it's Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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In an odd way, it is refreshing to be around people who aren't attention-starved and media-addicted.
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I have my own favorites; right now it's 'Simple Man,' but that changes from time to time.
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One of the things about dealing with an artist is that their art is essentially - if they're successful, it's kind of lightning in a bottle. There is no formula for it.
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Some Lynyrd Skynyrd songs are literally the backdrop of America. Songs like 'Simple Man' and 'Free Bird' and 'Alabama.' I wasn't prepared for how emotional the crowd gets during the songs.
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Lead by examples, not words.
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My journalistic heroes are all the guys like Peter Arnett of Vietnam, and my style in journalism is you got to stand there, and you got to see it with your own eyes.
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It's difficult, because when you're a popular singer who makes money, you're basically a race horse. And that's how you're treated by the people around you.
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I was 8 years old when I started listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bad Company and Led Zeppelin.
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Rehab is one thing, but it takes years to get that attitude adjustment.
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I grew up in Japan. It's my first memories of life are Japan.
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When I had a kid, it was a game changer.
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While I was in India, my yoga teacher asked me to start teaching, and my life became about that for years. I taught 18 classes a week, therapeutics, and traveled to study with other teachers.
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In a lot of ways, Nauru is something like a canary in a coal mine: It's a tiny place with more than its share of troubles, most of them the kind that might have been prevented.
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When I left my band, I had to start over from scratch, and that's a scary place to go.
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When you grow up in Atlanta, joining Lynyrd Skynyrd is like joining the Rolling Stones.
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My father was in the military, so I was in Okinawa.
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Seriously, American pop culture must be the most predominant force on the planet, next to pollution and poverty.
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Yoga is how I got sober.