Quotes from Steve Perry

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.

You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that.

You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down.

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.

I'm no spring chicken. The same arthritis that ate up my left hip that finally got replaced hasn't stopped there... And touring is a lot of work. I'm impressed when I see people like Eric Clapton out there. Gee whiz, Eric, give me a break! I know it's gotta hurt somewhere.

I have simply said that there's just a side of me that could not judge anybody singing. It's not who I am. I don't want to be that person.

There's always a price for what you want.

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and 15 minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.

He had never found a companion he could consider his equal, and if he ever did, well, how would he be able to trust someone that adept? An interesting conundrum.

Droga to ?ycie. ?ycie to walka

a second is as good as an eon, if you suceed...and as good as forever if you fail

Cold allowed precision, heat threw caution aside and plunged in rampantly. Cold was the process of deliberation and planning, heat the result of unbridled passion. Passion was fine, but only when controlled and channeled properly.

Consider the logistics of a god who has eight arms and three penises coupling with a goddess who has four arms and nine vaginas.

If by dying for the cause you're going straight to Paradise to sit at your thundering god's right hand, death doesn't mean a whole lot." "Are people really that stupid?" "That's a rhetorical question, right?

Teaching helped sharpen your own skills.

Kane stood ready, his sword forged of love, hope and prayer, in hand.

He's a bad-ass, that Buddha is. Tear your nuts right off.

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'