Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool.

True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

You don't find a style. A style finds you

That's what I really wanted to do when I was 16, be in comics!

There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.

Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.

The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

Listening is harvesting what is in the speaker's mind.

Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.

The manager administers; the leader innovates.