“He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.”

Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues…It’s called rock now.

He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.

Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.

Music is music and I think music people are the delivers, the actors, when they put their music out they want to insert their character in it. So they call it such and such so you know how they live so to speak.

All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.

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

Actually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.

Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn’t unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn’t budge.

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

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.

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.

There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.

I’m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it’s my grass. And that is satisfying.

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

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

It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

I had fun in the markets for a while but learned investing in myself and business was a better use of my funds.

Learn to live in this world with self-respect.

You were the hardest lesson I ever had to learn.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

One day; you will learn to love yourself just enough to let them go.

I took some time away to reflect and learn about myself in a way that would be too much to explain at the moment , but with time I will express.