Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.

It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.

Make life an art rather than art from life.

You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.

Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!

Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!

The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

I’m not interested in teaching books by women.

There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve.

I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.

I'm not going to change who I am just because people think it's weird.

As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.

I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.

Praise none too much, for all are fickle.

I'm not too much of a wild guy. I'm all about work, I'm all about studio.

You are so annoying. I could literally slap the sh*t out of you and feel so much better.

Atheists can be good people; they just have no objective way to judge the conduct of those who are not.

The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.