You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.

Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.

Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

Rock is my child and my grandfather.

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

Prayer is like breathing....how long can you hold your breath?

Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it!

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed

My secret indulgent food is dessert. I have an incredible sweet tooth - chocolate pudding with vanilla ice-cream or trifle and pavlova. I do love dessert.

I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

I don't work at being ordinary.

Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.