I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.

Beware of pretty faces that you find, a pretty face can hide an evil mind.

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.

All summer long we spent dancin' in the sand, and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.

I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.

About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.

I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.

I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.

Thus, in moments of catastrophe, when hard decisions needed to be made quickly, all AIs included in their calculations a human death toll governed by a factor called ‘pigheadedness’.

Never allow reality to get in the way of your dreams.

Her beauty was enough to get her into most any situation she desired and her tongue—sharp and venomous—was enough to get her out again.

I chose and my world was shaken, so what? The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not.

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

Claiming certainty without corroborating evidence is stupid.

I'm not a republican any more. Not so voraciously anyway - I'm not in favour of the concept of monarchy, but I do see the good in it if there's a good person in the role.

When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.

I was really not familiar at all with Edward Snowden. I like to get that right out of the way and really learned most of what I know from Oliver's [Stones] script.

The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.