If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.

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

In Christ, there is newness of life.

Architecture is petrified music.

I was taught very early on how you treat people is actually what matters.

The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.

I haven't prepared as much as I would like to but it will be fun to get out there again. I have nothing left to prove in surfing but still have the desire to keep going.

Hold your head up, there's a light in the sky I know your fed up but you must try to survive Each moment's precious, don't let life pass you by Keep focused, keep your eyes on the prize.

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

There’s no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There’s no other way.

I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.

Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.