Here comes the new boss Same as the old boss.

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

Create you own singleness, your own loneliness, and know that you know this is exactly what you are doing. And feel damn right about it.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

Working in film, I'm sure you have insight into this, there's something great that only comes by way of interactions with others that a monastic life does not afford.

What is dark within me, illumine.

I do good when people doubt me. When someone says I can't do something, I want to do more. I won't back down from anybody.

[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.

I am a scientist. I go where the facts take me.