Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.

When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.

A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.

The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.

Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.

Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain.

The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

I am going to die, but that is of no importance.

I love books, they're in my blood.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Ain't nothing stronger than the heart of dixie.

Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on.

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive.

Everything changes, nothing is lost.

No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.