If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool.

Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.

I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It's really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.

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.

Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.