Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart.

The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art

David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross

Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records

I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

Love the one you're with.

But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar

May the stars ever shine on your path, and the darkness never leave your side.

Every book has its ancestors

I look at her and I see my future...and it looks glorious.

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

Los Angeles is many places in one place.

One of the things I tend to do is open myself up to a variety of voices. I try to expose myself to the kind of culture shock that occurs when you talk to people who speak a different language.

Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn.

When Im writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids havent left me.

How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself.