I still don't know how to read music.

Well, let's see: I started [in music] at nine and quit. Then got back to it when I was twelve. Then I became a party star. In fact, I became a party!

I play patterns. I'll make up a pattern and just play it.

There are no managers like there used to be managers.

When the wind blows, the grass bends.

Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

I am not in the world. The world is in me.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation.

If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying 'YES' to love.

I think the hardest part [is] the priorities. There are an awful lot of things to do [being Secretary of State].

When the last point is done, we are humans. Give your opponent a hug and say, ‘great fight,’ and that’s all.

For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.

The man who can best gets along with women, is the man who can get along without them.