Quotes from Tommy Shaw

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.

I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas.

Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.

We're kind of defined by our mistakes.

I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.

When it stops being fun, stop.

I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.

I don't like looking back.