I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.

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.

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is...Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.

Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were waving or drowning.

Given the choice between one lifetime spent with you or a thousand without, I will always choose you.

My affection for you is not my problem.

Jazz to me is a living music.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

I will always be dedicated to the talented men and women at our headquarters in Brooklyn and across the country.

As long as I'm prepared, I always expect to win.

When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.

If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.