A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.

I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything

If you watch great things, you empower your thought greatly. They that do great things do not only look but they see.

Is Wisdom derived from the accumulation of one's experiences, or rather one's thoughtful reflection upon what he has learned throughout the process?

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

I can take anyone down at anytime; they can't take me down; no one can ride or turn me; I can control anyone.

Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.

I didn't even dream it would be so good. But I would never let my children come close to the thing.