Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.

It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.

Make life an art rather than art from life.

You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.

Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!

Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!

The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

I’m not interested in teaching books by women.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Please don’t take offense, but I want no part of this family or what comes with it.

Stress does not come from problems. It originates from fear which comes from the anticipation of problems.

Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.", 1964)

Leave nothing for death but a burned-out castle

Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.

I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.

Keep dreaming, wishing and planning. There's immeasurable power in it.

I'm horrible with money. I make bad business decisions every hour of the day.

Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.