I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.

It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him in The Traveling Wilburys was beyond my wildest dreams!

There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.

I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.

The hairs stand up on the back of my neck at certain music.

At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.

Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

Smile creates love and peace

Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists.

My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.

I think we’ve been oversold the value of more and undersold the value of less.

We are entirely for the idea that Europe shall be free from nuclear weapons, from medium-range weapons as well as tactical weapons. That would be a real zero option.

It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.