Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

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

Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

It's in the public domain. That's one of the reasons I do it so much. But luckily, it's a brilliant film [ Night Of The Living Dead]. Every horror aficionado must see that film at least once.

Everybody's somebody's everything

Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.

I will not accept your guidance and critique unless you are supportive and nurturing. On the other hand, you need to be continually demanding.

Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

If you ask her to do things on command, like clap or walk, she just shuts down. She does not want to perform.

Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.

We've taken what was just once a racetrack and made it a multifaceted gaming destination for the entire region.