My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit. He was Mordecai in the play 'A Dream of Queen Esther.'

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.

Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.

Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

Rock is my child and my grandfather.

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

Trust is an ethereal quality. Like oxygen or light we notice it only by its absence.

Underground, the stars are legend.

The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity.

They said the black oil wouldn't come ashore. Well, it is ashore. It's here to stay and it's going to keep coming.

I care about what the fans feel.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.