I just play intuitively and work the same way in the studio. I don't have any magical effects or anything that helps me to get my particular sound.

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.

No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.

Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

Every actor wants to be everybody - play all the roles.

I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.

Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.

I was assigned a Taliban "minder" who followed me everywhere. But he couldn't follow me into homes where there were women, so I took photos inside people's homes.

Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words and not one of them can save me.

There is only one legend. That's me

I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.