I'm so lucky, I'm just really grateful for what I've got around me - children and my wife and everything else.

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.

I'm trying to figure out precisely which character flaw might be responsible for my latest life failure.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world.

If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

When you extend your goodwill in every direction, regardless of circumstances, you begin to see that we are all one.

Open offices keep everyone in tune with what is going on and keep the energy up. If an employee is about privacy, show him or her how to use the lock on the bathroom.

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

There would be a price... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?