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.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

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

Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

Even a thousand loud lies become powerless in front of one calm truth.

You don’t have to wait for a storm to pass to paint your own rainbow.

All of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of time—that's why we suffer.

The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread.

The world is futile when viewed through the persona of the body. The body is not simply the physical body but it's the body of knowledge of this world.

Men ask the way to Cold Mountain, Cold Mountain: there's no through trail.

Life is once. Forever.

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

There's not going to be a whole lot of change, to be honest with you. I don't think there's a reason to fix what's broke.

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.