I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.

It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.

I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.

I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.

I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them.

I never weigh myself. But if I put my trousers on and they don't do up, then I don't eat until I can.

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

I have a very old-fashioned and traditional mode of dress. I get embarrassed, and I don't really like going to photo shoots. I don't like stylists.

what u know will make u known.u cannot rise beyond what u know

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

It wasn't who a person believed himself to be or what he pretended he would do in a given situation. It was what he did when he got there that defined him.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.

I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.

I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.

For tradition to be alive it has to be allowed to be a fountain of power for things undreamt of, things to come.

I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -

Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions.