The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.

Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.

Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

Rock is my child and my grandfather.

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

Without God, right and wrong are just personal beliefs. Personal opinions. I think shoplifting is okay, you don’t.

It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.

Imagine in what the president [Donald trump] wants to do, the 400 wealthiest families in America will get a tax break of $7 million a year.

Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves.

Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself.

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived