I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.

Make life an art rather than art from life.

You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.

Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!

Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!

The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

I’m not interested in teaching books by women.

Silence nurtures the soul, relaxes the body temple and gives us the strength we need in moments of uncertainty. Welcome it.

… this is my first language.” {on Writing}

The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around, there's show tunes and fart noises.

The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their own way of teaching, one that manifests who they are.

We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.

We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.

I always knew I was a hit record just waiting to happen.

Just like a kitten that thinks its a tiger.