To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

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

Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.

She couldn’t help but wonder at the events of recent days, and at how—even in the face of such misfortune, there was so much good,

Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.

One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!

I don't think that hedge funds are bad per se. I think they're just one more financial tool. And in that sense, they're useful.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

Although I hold the highest civil honour in the world, I have always regarded my rank and title as a Past Grand Master of Masons the greatest honour that had ever come to me.

Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.

Don't over-react to the trouble makers.