If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep.

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

He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.

Love is your religion

Do not confuse kindness with weakness. Kindness is a dying art. It is the single most important quality in this world and one which is sorely lacking.

I wish Elton Brand the best. He's a great guy. He's always going to be a great friend of mine, regardless of what goes on.

Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.

As far as outdoor work is concerned, a studio is only a garage; a place in which to store pictures and repair them, never a place in which to paint them.

Preaching affects men; prayer affects God. Preaching affects time; prayer affects eternity

If you can remember the sixties, you weren't there.

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.