To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive.

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

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking.

When something is dirty you wash it. That's what my mum always said.Yet...When you have dirty money and you launder it, people jump up and down.I guess that's life.

Our greatest happiness comes from the experience of love & compassion.

There's no place for mob justice in Afghanistan.

I need a bodyguard." Simon eyed him. "Have you been watching The Bodyguard? Because I am not going to fall in love with you and carry you around in my burly arms.

Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.

Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.

Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.

Most people think that God wants us to demonstrate our love for God by having churches and by having symbols - and I think that's a huge error.

Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography.