You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

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

Self-esteem isn't everything

The greatest figures in history are never the ones who avoid failure, but those who march chin-up through countless failures, one after the next, until they come upon the occasional victory.

The quiet but inexorable breaking down of self-esteem is much more sinister - it’s violation of the soul.

Strong minded people control their propensity.Dependency on anything is a lack of maturity.

My mom lived with me until I started making enough money to support myself. I was asking her to leave the entire time. I'd been ready to move out since I was, like, 14.

To achieve great things, we must first dream.

To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.

Pay attention to what you're passionate about when no one is paying you.

There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists.

The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.