A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

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

With The Dread, first kiss was the beginning. Second kiss was the end.

Oh yes! I have couple-goals too. I love to couple myself with- Books, Coffee and Mountains.

The chakras in your body are as to galaxies on the body of God.

The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.

There was a tangible sense of potential as we packed them up. 'We're giving people 3-D printers that they can afford. What are they gonna make?

The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he

I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people's doors.

I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train.

Who were the best players I had ever played against? Raul, Messi, Zidane.

Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.