I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.

If you gave me a fresh carnation, I would only crush its tender petals.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.

No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course.

I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.

Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.

I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy.

...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.

It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.

The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.

Hollywood doesn't believe in the death penalty for anyone except people who get cable TV without paying for it. Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.