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.

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.

You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.

Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

.you can have little and be rich..

The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.

I am not John Lennon; I never will be!

Tonight, she went into the woods, and I fear she shall live in the woods of my soul for the rest of my days.

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.

If you try your best, you can always be better.

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

Present yourself always As who you would be, And that is the person The world will see.