I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.

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

Warriors achieve more than worriers.

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

Many of the poems weave autobiographical elements with fabular or mythic materials.

I hated the summer jobs I had when I was a teenager. They were so mundane and repetitious, they deadened my soul. On the bright side, it was good training for this job.

When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you.

You have your own culture and your own ways of doing things. I hope Japan continues on this path.

Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.

The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

Passion overcomes obstacles.

Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.