It makes me angry when people insist that I have a responsibility to do what they think I should do.

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

There Peter sat in the new sunlight, plaiting the straw for baskets, until he saw the thing he had been taught most to fear advancing silently along the lea of an outcrop of rock.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.

What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story.

Death aims with fouler spiteAt fairer marks.

I don't eat any toxic chemicals, and I eat organic as often as possible.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

I think theres a little bit of sizzling here. Honestly, I can feel it. The ions are flying back and forth.

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.