I play out my role, I've even been out walking -They tell me that it helps, but I know when I'm beaten.

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 honor and love the fairy folk and am excited to keep getting know them for the rest of my life!

In an established love of reading there is a policy of insurance guaranteeing certain happiness till death.

However let's turn the coin, what if we choose not to broadcast the bad news but choose to broadcast mostly good news? How would this affect our life?

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book, I feel like I am getting two years of life experiences.

Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.

Retiring today allows me to walk away from the game with pride, rather than have the game walk away from me.