How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?

Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.

I like unkempt; I don't mind if I have holes in my jacket or whatever. I think people should look more the way they feel.

I'm not interested in a persona.

I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.

It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don't like the way you look.

I never thought I'd be on the cover of the 'Atlanta Journal' unless I killed someone.

In 2000, I fell in love. I had never felt anything like that before in my life. It kind of took me over.

Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.

I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

How few are our real wants and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

I don't have that much of an ego where it's like "How dare you, you can't do something without me."

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

No matter how smart she appeared, she was fragile at her core.

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.

I mean, look, no matter how you feel about Bush, watching him speak is difficult. It's like- it's like watching a drunk man cross an icy street.

The walls of people hardly affected me. You closed your mind to such things.

The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918