I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.

I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything

The destiny of every country is in the hands of the people who know God.

Have you ever said, “Well, all we can do now is pray”? . . . When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God.

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.

Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act!

A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. It's simple, fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and DO IT!

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.