Ends and beginnings there are no such things. There are only middles.

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

As far as guitar picking, if I make the same mistakes at the same time every day, people will start calling it a style.

If you listen to people talk when people actually talk, they talk in melodies. If they get angry, their voice rises, and it's more of a staccato thing. When they ask for something, they're real sweet. It's all music.

We used to want our artists to be cigarette-smoking bohemian outsiders who were gonna take risks that the rest of us wouldn't.