Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.

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

You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person!

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

No pressure is greater than God's power.

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

Michael Moore put out a tweet. He said tell your senators and house members now, you want them to cease all business until they appoint a special committee on [Donald] Trump and the Russians.

All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.

I hate to say it, but killing is our way. We began America with genocide, then built it with slaves. The shootings will continue. It's who we are.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

Throughout the world, the family is increasingly under attack. If families fail, many of our political, economic, and social systems will also fail.

Fail, fail again, fail better.