Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

A good thing never ends.

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

I really believe in the idea of the future.

Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one.

Most one-run games are lost, not won.

I stayed sober for this?

I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.

Many a truth is told in jest.

Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

But eventually it is a game of cricket.