You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

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.

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

Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

Fairytales have rules. We may never understand them but they've been hammered into our heads since infancy. Eventually, even the rebels conform.

As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried.

What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.

[Belafonte]'d take me to perform for Martin Luther King's cause. But when they were marching I did not take part, because I was not a citizen

You show your worth by what you seek.

Dawn comes before sleep does.

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.