"Most things I worry about never happen anyway."
"I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy."
"I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy."
"I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem."
"The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit."
"TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health."
"It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music."
"I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television."
"It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music."
"We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted."
"I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily."
"The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It's in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it."
"Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success."
"There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now."
"What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life."
"Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person."
"If you're not getting older, you're dead."
"I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality."
"The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me."
"I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time."
"When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering."
"I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated."
"Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a live performance. If the material is strong, you're already 90% there. I always tell young people it's all about the music, the songs. Work on the songs, work on the songs, work on the songs."
"Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things."
"You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here."
