66 Quotes by Tom Scholz

'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.

Musical accidents are a gold mine. The thing about accidental discoveries is they won't be made unless you put yourself in a position to make that discovery. To do that means hundreds of hours, days and weeks where you do things and don't discover anything.

If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.

I was basically a dork that hit the books and liked to build things and did all of the things that you weren't supposed to do to be popular. But somehow I ended up onstage, playing guitar in front of everybody else.

And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.

Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall.