You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

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

Having been dumped so many times in my life, I thought I could sympathize with Bellas character.

The goal of being alive is to figure out what it means to be alive.

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

I like to have a good time. I'm playing a great game, so why should I stop smiling when I get on the field?

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.

I had always loved Joseph Cornell and wanted to do something with dioramas.

I'm much pickier about what I put in my body. I always read labels now, whereas before I didn't even think to.

Oh, my only – if I had one frustration in being on “West Wing” is I wasn’t on it enough, because I was in and out.

Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.