Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn't die of an overdose, he died of fame.

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

As I sit under the moonlit tree, your heart adorns me with the twinkle of stars.

Perfect devices: doctors, ghosts and crows. We can do things other characters can't, like eat sorrow, un-birth secrets and have theatrical battles with language and God.

I don't wanna limit myself to anything, but I eat like a vegetarian and I eat mostly raw.

A domain exits where concepts can't go; so leave them on the doorstep to enter.

Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.

It is human nature to seek revenge in the face of relentless suffering. You can’t expect an unhealthy person to think logically.

When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.

travel is compost for the mind

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.

How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing.