The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it's full.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.

What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.

The first mistake is trying to explain morality to a terrorist. Like trying to teach a rock to drive. It is impossible.

Go back in time. Next question go and look at dinosaurs. I would be sitting on a rock looking at a T- Rex, loving life.

Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

I had the feeling of being crushed under a rock till I could see only one crack of light, and that was the love of God.

I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.

And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic

I started going to rock shows at a really young age, and seeing other young people make music definitely influenced me.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words - fools (mudhas) consider pieces of rocks as gems.

With climbing you can go to the most beautiful places on the planet and practice. Anywhere there is rock, you can climb.

I'd like to write a big rock anthem again. I just need to listen to Korn, and then I might get the idea of how to do it.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.

A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.

The guy who could be me, but he knows when to draw the line, is John Cena. John Cena can rock 'n' roll, let me tell you.

Hey, rock dude, are you destroying the house? Causing mayhem? Who’s a ferocious gargoyle? Stoney’s a ferocious gargoyle.

Miyazaki's films in Japan are bigger than Titanic. He's an incredible rock star there. In the US, they don't do as well.

I was into alternative stuff, but I was also open to a little bit of hard rock and metal, like Guns N' Roses, Metallica.

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.

I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan.

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.

In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that rivals that.

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

Rock music seems to be very fragmented these days, I can't say that I ever really hear anything that just knocks me over.

Look at The Rock's competition! Look at him! It looks like a big monkey came down here, took a crap, and out came Mankind!

I love Rihanna's new album, Skrillex, and Norah Jones. They're are all very different, but I love any rock, pop, and jazz.

I took some important things with me from sports. Rock and roll is a team sport. You're only as good as your weakest link.

I like the glamorous indie rock look, like The Libertines. But you know, without the heroin needle sticking out of my arm.

A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.

I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.

I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.

I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.

A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.

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