If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

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

There is nothing to lose in this life.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

Forgiveness is God's command.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

You want to climb the mountain because it’s there and you know you can do it.

If I ever thought I wasn't the right guy for the job, I'd be the first person to fire myself.

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.

Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.