It might appear that nothing is happening, but that's actually when it really happens.

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

Withheld potential is a "CRIME TO HUMANITY

Don't become a prisoner of your own reality, set yourself free by creating a life worth living.

The best lies were the simplest and made the most sense, in the mind and in the mouth.

Don't sell out your virtue and your value for something you think you want. Judas got the money, but he threw it all away and hung himself because he was so unhappy with himself.

An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.

All things are subject to decay and change.

This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.

Before you get to the strip club, you've got to go through the skating rinks.

The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.