Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

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

Nothing is new anymore. We're living in a post-everything society and "art" itself has become satire.

Love, Imagination and Intuition are the most powerful forces on the planet earth.

Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.

Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.

Love is who we are without our stories.

One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

For pleasure, I'll read military sf, or Elmore Leonard capers, anything that's fast and fun. Otherwise, I mostly pick at books, without any clear focus.

I remember Bob Dylan saying in an interview that at a certain point he'd had to learn to do consciously what he'd previously done unconsciously or automatically. That resonates.

Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that.