Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.

For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live.

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

You've got to be able to hold a lot of contradictory ideas in your mind without going nuts. I feel like to do my job right, when I walk out on stage I've got to feel like it's the most important thing in the world. Also I've got to feel like, well, it's only rock and roll. Somehow you've got to believe both of those things.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.

I want a thousand guitars . . .