My entire social life is spent in bars, so I don't see giving up drinking as a viable option. Could you see me saying, 'Tomato juice please?'

A kid once said to me "Do you get hangovers?" I said, "To get hangovers you have to stop drinking.

I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it.

If you think you are too old to rock 'n roll, then you are.

All you got in life is your honor, man, your own self-image, your own self-respect. If you lose that, or if you give it away or if you sell it, then you ain't got it no more.

That was a great time, the summer of '71 - I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it!

Born to lose. Live to win.

Don't look to me. Don't ask for help. Don't ask for anything that you can do yourself

It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.

Inherited hatred (i.e. hatred your parents schooled you in) is not only stupid, it is destructive - why make your only driving force hate? Seems really f***ing dumb to me.

People don't want to see the guy next door on the stage, they want to see a being from another planet. You want to see somebody you'd never meet in ordinary life.

The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.

It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.

All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

I don't have a spiritual bone in my body; but what I am, is religious.

If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio.

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

Laying a hand on his heart, she timed its beats to her own. And knew the truest magic was there.

But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me.