“Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love co...” — Johnny Van Zant Quote

“Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood.”

“When we were kids, we said the Pledge of Allegiance because we were proud of this country, and we said prayer. You know, we thanked the good Lord above.”

“Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current.”

“They're great songs. How many bands wouldn't like to have a 'Freebird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama' to play every night?”

“When we are out on the road, running up and down the road playing shows, you have to be not only a member of a band but, especially with Lynyrd Skynyrd, you have to be a part of the Skynyrd nation. You have to be a part of the family.”

“Music is a great healer.”

“I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.”

“Whenever I have a chance to wake up and be alive, I always thank God for that, and for me, all the rest is a bonus.”

“I'm alive. I have my music; I have my children. I am the luckiest man.”

“A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive.”

“Metaphorically speaking, of course, if I put a problem behind my pillow and fall asleep, very often because my brain went to sleep with that idea or the problem alive, very often in the middle of the night I wake up, and I wake up with a solution or with a direction of solution.”

“Communism may be over as an economic system, but as a model of state domination, it is very much alive in the People's Republic of China and in Putin's police state.”