Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.

If you gave me a fresh carnation, I would only crush its tender petals.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.

No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course.

I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.

Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.

I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.

The birth of a child is supernatural spiritual event.

‎The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour.

To bring up a child in the way he should go travel that way yourself once in a while.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.

I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers.

Within every brand is a product, but not every product is a brand.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.

Joy is not like happiness, unhappiness. It is singular.