Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.

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

If you want to find money, focus on people. If you want to lose people, focus on money.

In suffering we find our truest selves.

The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness .

What's interesting is the populace movement of fundamentalism is starting to mirror that approach that elite fundamentalism has long had of trying to have influence across the political spectrum.

That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

When I was a kid if you didn't have "Lil" in front of your name, you were trash.