They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.

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

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but having no outlet, it implodes in a great fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul.

Oh, I knew he was gonna do that. I just knew he was gonna do that. He don't need Jannetty. I told you that off and on.

Things are achieved when they are well begun.

I think his karma became to serve in nature and not to serve in the world, while I think my karma is to be in the world.

Prevarication, how divine! I always did get along better with sinners.

I usually make to-do lists with timelines, and pen and paper does the trick for me.

I am a hard house freak and I don't care who knows.

Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.