I do greatly admire Australian artists.

Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.

I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

What I have found is that real friends stand by you.

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.

Bad is never good until worse happens.

God helps those who help others.

People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we're made of? 830

We're not just a band playing songs, we're a safe place to go forget your troubles.

Power is supposed to be so corrupt. I don't think it's so much corrupt, in the usual sense of the word, as stupid and unrealistic. The more power a person has, the further he gets from reality.

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.

I lived in Indonesia for four years and I understand trance and magic and where it comes from.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen.