As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.

When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.

Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

You can't change what happened. Just like you can't change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don't be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

One can't reason away regret-it's a bit like falling in love, falling into regret.

Billy [Corgan] and I used to spend quite a lot of time together in Los Angeles, when I first moved there.

She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.

What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.

That showed a total lack of disrespect from the player.

Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.

When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.

My son asked for very little - a kickstand, with a motorcycle attached.

All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.