Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn't unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn't budge.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.

Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.

Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

Rock is my child and my grandfather.

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

It's hard to criticize someone if you are praying for them.

Tell me you're sorry.Tell me you don't hate me enough to hurt me this way.

the most random things get her way too full of love

I hate the word 'potential'-potential means you haven't gotten it done.

Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died.

I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

As long as I don't have an idea, I won't write anything.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment.