Some things get better with age. Like me.

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

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

On paper it's perfect.But the thing about paper is: It burns.

When we begin to see the equality of our biology then our ideology is exposed,

Life's too short to build something nobody wants.

I walked up the stairs and hesitated at the open door.

The key is to be happy for no reason. Just be love. Just be it. Just be happy no matter what. Just share your love and know that like it's all ok.

Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.

The real Da'wah to Islam is the character of a Muslim.

I went to a freak show and they let me in for nothing.

Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.