Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

There is so little time for us all; I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible.

Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.

I live my life with a sense of urgency that most people cant comprehend.

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

Sometimes I get a funny feeling inside me that I shan't be here very long, and I'm not talking in terms of things like success. It frightens me sometimes

Our lives are merely trees of possibilities.

I want fun now, life is here to enjoy, not to complicate and make difficult.

If God were to appear in my room, obviously I would be in awe, but I don't think I would be humble. I might cry, but I think he would dig me like crazy.

A lot of people don't know about music, but buy records. A lot of people that know about music can't afford to buy records.

With my Les Paul, I know I'm small. But I enjoy living anyway.

What do we live for? If not to give what you have and share life with other souls.

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

The dead must heed them.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

Identify in your work opposites of color, form, compositional arrangements, space, etc.

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

Let me see what I have that will 'abide the fire.'