Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.

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

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.

I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!

Well, at least I had on underwear

When I go and make smaller films, I actually never think about them being made for a smaller audience.

Health and healing will follow fasting.

Because I'm a novelist, I think in terms of structure. The way I keep going is through structure. It's what inspires me and pushes me through.

We need to break free from the habits of mind and behavior, to discover the possibilities of who we can become.

Discipline is not a nasty word.

I do not have a single white note on my piano; my elephant smoked too much.