I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.

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

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

You do not necessarily lose concentration

Life's adversity strengthens us to embrace - life’s true purpose and destiny.

Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.

Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.

It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.

Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded.

I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.