I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded or unhappy with the process.

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.

Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

You have to jump into the pool before you know whether there's water in it.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

Well the sun’s the light of everything, ya know?” She said. “Without it, everything would be dark. We wouldn’t have anything. Everything needs a little light to exist. Even darkness.

Find the joy in your everyday situations. You have the choice, you always did and you will always do. Thrive.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

I don't want the natural athlete -- I want a guy who'll go after the hard ones.

The rhetoric of hate and binarisms pervades the politics of the "Third-World" and of the West.

The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's never written a song.

We can't conclusively say whether man-made carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to climate change.

There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them