If you went to see me today, you might not like my music.

God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play.

You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.

Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.

I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music.

I'm surprised that I actually pulled off the recording, getting all those people at the same time.

Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.

But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.

Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.

Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71.

A dangerous and treacherous path is only worth it when the desire to have courage outweighs the driving need to get to the other side.

He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

Never start a war with something you can't talk to.

Being in L.A. is great because there are so many weird people out there, so you can just blend in. I like that.

It would take less than a second for you to die. But that's quite long enough to be in mortal agony, don't you think?

Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.

Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.

I don't stop when I'm tired. I only stop when I'm done.

I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.