If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

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

Where true dignity and real freedom are undermined, real self least exists!

People who don’t have patience don’t achieve anything in life.

I'm always very interested in going and discovering a young director's films.

Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.

My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age.

I have a dog that loves to fight. It's a border collie, and they fight low to the ground. Other dogs are terrified of my dog, because he gets low and goes for the balls.

The reason people don't know what is good for them is because most people don't know what they are trying to do.

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.

There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing.

I'm a liberal Democrat, and I state that proudly.