If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't.

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

Don’t believe what you hear about those penguins. A species of lazy waddlers. Their extinction is immanent.

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

It could all end tomorrow, so enjoy what you have and never take it for granted. And never forget to take an easy run for yourself once in a while and just remember why you love to run.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.

Well, you know, Pudge Rodriguez, obviously is as good as it gets.

Sizeism = like racism, only against people who aren't a size two or four.

All my life I've felt weak compared to other people. If they want to crush me then they can. But I know I can do things that other people can't.

I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.