Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and they’re nice little guys who are usually in college, and they’re kind of lonely and misunderstood, learning to play guitar.

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

Fame has a lot of baggage to carry around. I wouldn't want to be like Bruce Springsteen. I don't need that much money and wouldn't want to have 20 bodyguards following me.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

Thought doesn't wrap around awareness. Awareness wraps around thought.

This is one secret in living with the loved one. That is, it doesn't try to change the other party.

I want something else. I’m not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it’s drenched in sunlight and it’s weightless and I know it’s not cheap. It’s probably not even real.

If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history.

I grew up on Nintendo. Mario was my best friend. I can't wait to get inside and play Nintendo GameCube.

Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].

We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.

I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old!

The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile.