I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing - the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.

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

Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.

The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

When I got pregnant my foot grew, but I was denying it. I've been denying it for three years

My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.

People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.

If people don't have their own vision, all they can do is 'sign-up' for someone else's.

But you too, help one another: help one another always. One another. In this way, by helping one another, we will do some good.

I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose.