I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

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

Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you.

Music made me kinder. Music made me a lover.

The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

Roll us down the mountain and I'm sure the fatman would win.

In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.

There is no one so great as the one who does not try to accomplish anything

I'll always stand by the first [Batman]. Even for its imperfections, people will never know how hard that movie was to do. A lot of that still holds up.

It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.