I wouldn't warm to [Chuck Berry] even if I was cremated next to him.

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

Words can be arrows that inflict wounds. They can also be bandages that heal.

Lewis Carroll. He was an odd one. Real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Completely denied having anything to do with the Alice books. Daft as a brush. You'd have liked him!

Bernie Saunders is like a fly buzzing around a bowl of rotten fruit. Long hail this fly!

For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.

The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect.

I think sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favourite time of day.

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

He pus his lips next to my ear and says, “You look good, Tris.

The most interesting part of my life is of no concern to the public.