I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.

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

A ‘biomass’ man lives by his instincts

This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.

I do not fear the nightWhen I know that todayI am bathed in a lightIt cannot be stolen away

Many men fail because they do not see the importance of being kind and courteous to the men under them. Kindness to everybody always pays for itself. And, besides, it is a pleasure to be kind.

Never tire to study. And to teach to others

With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing.

But I was thinking of a way To feed oneself on batter, And so go on from day to day Getting a little fatter.

That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.

This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me

To fear the worst oft cures the worst.