I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool.

True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

You don't find a style. A style finds you

I used to be free spirited, now I'm just free of sleep. I got a burning passion in my throat. I got a burning passion inside me.

But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.

Man is more likely to believe an opinion that he wanted to hear … than a fact that he wishes was an opinion.

It is not impossible to suppose that in this case our luminary was taken in the act.

WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.

Well no, I think we won't have that problem but as far as paparazzi I'm speaking, I will deal with that.

There definitely is an appearance issue, ... Now whether or not there's a reality issue, I don't know.

Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.

In life nothing goes on for ever, even if it looks exactly as if it would.

One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.