You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.

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

Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall

Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

Be young forever, seasons of the earth.

Any work you do, do it the best you can and achieve the maximum result.

I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.

You don't make art, you find it

Everybody is looking for a hit single but what the artists really need is an executive producer to help put better albums out.

If you stay in Beverly Hills too long, you become a Mercedes.