In spite of what anyone says it’s women who make the rules.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

In a life properly lived, you're a river.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

My parents were dismayed by my love of horror movies as a young girl, then even more dismayed when I kept rooting for Dracula to win instead of Van Helsing.

The use of self control is like the use of brakes on train. It is useful when you find yourself in wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right

The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government.

The only permanent and constructive changes you can make in the world are the changes that you make in yourself.

I think some people form the traditional DJ worlds misunderstand where I'm coming form.

Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.

Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.

We are born to soar. We are children of God. ... The Fatherhood of God offers a deep spiritual cure for the inferiority complex and lays the firm foundation for a solid spiritual self-esteem.