I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City.

I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.

Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.

An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'.

I've always despised the hippies.

Real estate is one sector that India is not very proud of.

Once you do have a child you want to talk about every detail of it. And it is really boring to all your friends and it should be.

Whereas Rolling Stone, I just never had anything to do with them. I'd stop by the office maybe twice a year.

"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.