Hey, we just enjoy it. I think we think we're getting the hang of this thing, you know?

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

critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

The time you wait subtracts the joy The heads the angel you destroy

If we are ever going to save this society and the world, there has got to be a way for us to work together. That may be more than we can ever hope to achieve, just because of human nature.

Making art is an act of faith.

"I won't apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience." "From all indications, you've acquired enough for ten men".

Wisdom can only come through honest introspection.

If a man prepares dinner for you and the salad contains three or more types of lettuce, he is serious.

God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions.

Never try to pull someone up who doesn't want it...they'll just pull you down.