The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing.

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

The light of our souls is never extinguished, it can never be, as the eternal one abides within each and every heart forever

Pessimism doesn’t change the reality

The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

I never told anyone this before but my Layla is my rain.

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.

Never insult a writer. You may find yourself immortalized in ways you may not appreciate.

Both triumph and disaster are impostors.

What to us may seem like a tragedy when it happens eventually can form itself into a gift.

When you start to become famous, you can hop into any kind of field just because of the name you have and the credentials you have.