It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

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

I am convinced that most Americans of the new generation have no idea what a decent forest looks like. The only way to tell them is to show them.

Hold faithfully to your unique vision and your detractors will eventually tire and give-up.

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!

She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. from "The Lady of the Haunted House

I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.

In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.

I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

Nothing chastens a planner more than the knowledge that he will have to carry out the plan.

Only a ninja can stop a ninja.

Each man is led by his own liking.