I'm not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I'm not saying, 'I'm sooo not famous,' I'm trying to continue being a musician in a time when everyone is very celebrity-led.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.

I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.

In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.

they have enough testosterone between them, if testosterone were electricity they could light up New York City for the month of August

One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture.

I only wish I had more time for fund raising.

No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time.

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.