I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.

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.

In our practice we have no particular purpose or goal, nor any special object of worship.

I'm a bull on Berkshire Hathaway. There may be some considerable waiting, but I think there are some good days ahead.

The thing about glitter is if you get it on you, be prepared to have it on you forever. Because glitter doesn't go away. Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.

No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don't respect or trust. You can get shot doing that.

To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never glorified in our house. There were no accolades there, no gold records.

Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.

Exercising can exorcise emotional pain.

I was the girl who didn’t get invited to parties.

The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.