Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.

A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.

A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song 'Yesterday.' Listen to the lyrics.

Charlie Christian played amplified guitar with Benny Goodman's quartet. He was the greatest guitar player that ever was. But he never looked up from the guitar. But I put a little dance to it. They appreciate seein' something along with hearin' something.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him.

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.

In a way, I feel it might be ill-mannered to try and top myself. The music I play is a ritual. Something that matters to people in a special way. I wouldn't want to interfere with that.

It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew who I was. I was going to be famous if it killed me.

My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit. He was Mordecai in the play 'A Dream of Queen Esther.'

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

My singing days have passed. My voice is gone. My throat is worn. And my lungs are going fast.

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.

Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands... I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction - I don't think anyone could know how much it really means.

That's the misconceptions that people have, that Chuck Berry went to jail. They're just totally wrong. It might have said something in the large papers in the bigger city headlines and things. But, you take a look at any of the local papers, and you will see that I was acquitted. I never went to jail.

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.

The music played most around St. Louis was country-western and swing. Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of the country stuff on our predominantly black audience. After they laughed at me a few times, they began requesting the hillbilly stuff.

You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.

You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

Don't bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I'm almost grown.

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'

They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned.

I start with the joke line and write backward.

If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's against the law in some cities. It's definitely a bummer. It's unfortunate.

I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.

When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.

It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid.

My second 30 is actually very good, where my turnovers are very quick. I just want to put a complete race together, once I get out of my drive phase, I want to hit my next 30 very hard.

It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.

Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

Love is like a dying ember and only memories remain. And through the ages Ill remember blue eyes crying in the rain.

I'm obsessed with karaoke, but I don't like to sing. I just like to go and watch amateur singers.

I used to stand on the corner in San Diego with poems sticking out of my hip pocket, asking people if there was a place where I could read poems. The audience is half of the poem.

It is good health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.

Ive seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, theres nothing closer to God than that.

Something I've really been wanting to do, ever since 'Six Feet Under' ended, was create my own version of this idealized writer's room as well as the ideal family.

I try to be of the world, rather than just observing it.

Rumors, stories... I'm used to them. I got my ribs removed, I was on 'The Wonder Years'... You know there's a different story every day.