I really don't make music to have platinum records and all that kind of stuff. I've been there. I do it because I love music and I love uplifting people through my music. That's my real goal.

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

Fly me high through the starry skies or maybe to an astral plane, cross the highways of fantasy, help me to forget today's pain.

We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.

In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.

I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

I didnt develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

Not everybody has things that become classics.

Action is where sacrifice is honoured and where you require persistence and courage to endure all that life throws in your direction.

Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.

She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.

There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.

Most of us have a "Do Not Disturb" sign around our necks.

Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.

Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.

A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection; And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.