What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.

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

Let your feelings flow and the scribbled words stay as a sovereign of the moment.

Believe in Luck only when yo can direct it into a possible outcome

Slight persistent effort can move you successfully forward in anything you do.

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly.

When someone comes up and says something like, 'I am a god,' everybody says 'Who does he think he is?' I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That's who I think I am.

I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.