You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.

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

I love you, Louise Downe McCord. You drive me absolutely crazy sometimes, and this is one of those times, but I love you.

My traumatic experience was life changing

I'm sure drugs and alcohol perhaps would inspire new thoughts, but it's certainly not something that I use as a tool or a mechanism to create.

Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, and if you want it any different you can join a Shubert chorus

I'm very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse.

Are those cat hairs on your lapel, or have you been dating a blonde with a crew cut?

To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness.

When we live our lives not for vanity, but for the sake of God and the betterment of humanity, that's what gives us immortality.

They paid the ultimate price and we can never forget their sacrifice.

The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future to our sucessor beings.