Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

It’s so hard, ” Andy said. “When you don’t have anyone.”“Yeah, I know, ” Gerri agreed. “Yet it’s harder when you have the wrong one.

Use PMA: Positive Mental Actitude.

Eat more beans to produce more gas.

In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

These companies are in it for their dollars, and whatever is hot that is what they follow.

Never patronise someone who knows they don't deserve it, for they will be quick to compliment your failures.

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.

Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.