It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.

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

It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.

My jealousy is a living thing. Shifting, changing, growing. Like my rage and my mother's regret.

My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

I was banging seven-gram rocks...because that's how I roll. I have one speed. I have one gear. Go.

The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.

Keep your head up in failure and your head down in success.

Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider.

Love's a weird one, isn't it? I've never told my husband Graham that I love him. He's never told me either. I think it started as a bit of a joke. We just decided never to say it.