Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.

It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.

Make life an art rather than art from life.

You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.

Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!

The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

I’m not interested in teaching books by women.

The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.

Making mistakes is important because it makes you wiser.

Sometimes I feel that our bright blue sky is like a pregnant women’s belly.

You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

I'm going to be working on my shot. Working on extending my range. Keep working on everything, and really studying the game.

Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it

Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

We must take our friends as they are.

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.