There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.

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

I'm sometimes scared that I'm forgetting what my dad was like.

Listen more to the one who criticizes you and less to the one who praises you. Learn from them and do something about it.

A good video can make all the difference

I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.

The night is shattered, and the blue stars shiver in the distance.

Let us listen to what all the faithful say, because in every one of them the Spirit of God breathes.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Resistance really takes the shape, for me, in voices in my head telling me why I can't do something or why I should put it off for another day, procrastinate for another day.

There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.