This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

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

When two broken hearts meet, they find their missing part in each other.

Foolishness is darkness.

You know I'd follow you anywhere. Even if it's straight to Hell.

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

Gratitude is the key that unlocks wonder.

Survival is nothing more than recovery.

Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

I'm the fun dad, I am also the disciplinarian.

It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things.

How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!