Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.

I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything

I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.

Sometimes being overwhelmed by emotions can leave you speechless but even then it is important to identify the correct emotion.

Physical strength in a woman - that's what I am.

I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.

When you are younger, you worry about what people think about you. When you are older, you realize that no one was ever thinking about you at all.

We are but dust and shadows.

You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

Marriage is a religious and state issue.

You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.

When I was on 'Saturday Night Live,' all I did was work.

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.