If I were to have my own brand of guitars, they would have to be industructable.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.

I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything

to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.

What a tremendous power one needs to become his own master!

We are confusing making “progress” with eradicating the larger problem.

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.

Intelligence, adaptability and talent. And by talent I mean the capacity for hard work. Lots of girls come here with little but good looks. Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.

I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.

I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made known.