To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important 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

when distress comes your way, pause and ponder

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.

I like a girl who laughs a lot. That's my main thing.

I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

Hope . . . is one of the ways in which what is merely future and potential is made vividly present and actual to us. Hope is the positive, as anxiety is the negative, mode of awaiting the future.

She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in the newspaper as that of an artist.

When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare.

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

I'll no longer say that I have supernatural powers. I am an entertainer. I want to do a good show. My entire character has changed.