I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.

I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.

Life can be dangerous; just let it be! When we shake off what we perceive as boundaries, that is where the bliss really is.

Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen!

You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.

This is such a cynical world. The way the world is, there's so much going on and so much stress in the world and so much darkness and craziness and imbalance.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

If you want to help the poor, don't be poor

Getting out and staying out of debt is key. debt is the biggest barrier, a parasite to wealth.

Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.

I don't think we ever clash but we do become frosty.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine a world outside your four walls or rearranging them to get a better view.

If I can't love Hitler, I can't love at all.

As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it.

I definitely try my best not to stay in character when I'm not on set, which can be more difficult in some roles than others.

Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that writing brings you joy.

The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help.