The soul of rock 'n' roll is mistakes, and making mistakes work for you. The people who shy away from mistakes and play it safe have no business playing rock 'n' roll.

A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.

I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.

The ones that love us least, are the ones we'll die to please.

Stick with your heart and you'll be fine.

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

Nobody can miss you unless you go away.

It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did.

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.

People like to see human error when it’s honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you.

If you have hung yourself out to dry, it means that you are still wet behind the ears.

There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.

The South has more of a disproportionate amount of irony on T-shirts than any other region in the country.

We know what war means, and we know what poverty means. We need to develop a better model for reaching out to the world than we have.

...science and violence turned silence to rage.

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood.

[Donald Trump] has had the good judgment and common sense to get back with all these people, who have written the legislation already.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.