I prefer the band situation. I prefer the relationship. Music is meant to be that way. It's meant to be interdependent.

Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it’s given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it…just to be in the world, really.

I just want to have a completely adventurous, passionate, weird life.

I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate.

If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress.

love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah.

I love anything that haunts me...and never leaves

Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally.

When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all worth, ever. You will be something complete unto yourself, present and unique.

There's the moon asking to stay long enough for the clouds to fly me away

Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run

We ought to walk in the bright light.

You can't kill rock and roll without a silver bullet because she's a werewolf.

I've been busy for a long, long time. I've received a ton of awards in the past few years ... I think they're really great, it's really an honor, but s**t - I really have to work for these things.

How sad they are, the promises we never return to. They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own.

Brushes..? Nah. Hit 'em as hard as you can.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers.

A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.

I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable.