Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.

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

There was much about him that was fine and beautiful, but he could never find the confidence he needed.

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

For those with the purity to see it, a nursing mother is one of the most precious, most beautiful, and most holy of all possible images of woman.

In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.

When President [Barack] Obama announced that he was leaving Iraq, I mean, he was talking about dates and times and what we're going to do.

Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly

We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life.

Your inside is out and your outside is in.

In matters of the heart it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.

I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.