“If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.”

“Music is a language that doesnt speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if its in the bones, its in the bones.”

“Classic of '43. Don't knock it. A Vintage year.”

“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. The public library is a g...”

“I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.”

“I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to be anywhere.”

“If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.”

“In rock and roll, homosexuality was accepted, but it was less cool to say it.”

“Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'”

“A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.”

“I wish I were a rock,' he said, and he became a rock.”

“Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority is consistent with what I have been taught as a scientist.”