I didn't have any inhibitions. I saw Elvis and Gene Vincent, and I thought, "Well, I can do this." And I liked doing it.

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.

We search for happiness across every landscape, if only we knew that the seed in which it first grows, is planted within ourselves...

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.

A verbose, prosaic review which mentions whistling winds and the timeless feeling of jade doesn't mean anything to me; I don't need a novella telling me about how an album is like a fine meal.

Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

Let your clarity define you, in the end, we will only just remember how it feels.

Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.