Words matter. These are the best Johnny Colt Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
Rehab is one thing, but it takes years to get that attitude adjustment.
I was 8 years old when I started listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bad Company and Led Zeppelin.
I started shooting pictures because I had all these photographers around me, and life was kind of boring creatively because you play the same songs every night. So I looked for another outlet, and I started shooting.
Yoga is how I got sober.
I have my own favorites; right now it’s ‘Simple Man,’ but that changes from time to time.
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.
It’s a big deal when you play in a rock band and you conquer Japan. You know, it’s a big deal.
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.
When I had a kid, it was a game changer.
When you grow up in Atlanta, joining Lynyrd Skynyrd is like joining the Rolling Stones.
If the Pacific took Nauru, it’d wash away one of the strangest and most troubled places on Earth.
When I left my band, I had to start over from scratch, and that’s a scary place to go.
Seriously, American pop culture must be the most predominant force on the planet, next to pollution and poverty.
Musically, what happened was this: I retired twice. I retired after The Black Crowes, and I retired after Brand New Immortals. Then, we started buying real estate, which really took up my time. I was busy. I was still teaching yoga, but I was mostly busy running business, and I was fine. I was happy.
I grew up in Japan. It’s my first memories of life are Japan.
