I think you have to satisfy yourself first and foremost.

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.

A people religiously right, will not long remain politically wrong.

Just because someone is on your path, it doesn't mean that they're on your journey.

Curiosity is the offspring of mystery. For without mystery there be no need for curiosity. Curiosity is the search for the things that can be, it is the inspiration of the true adventurer.

But she did love him. I believe it. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.

People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands.

Sweet pea?'" Alec said. "I was just trying it out." Alec shook his head. "No." Magnus shrugged. "I'll keep at it.

I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

Well, you wear underwear. That helps.

It is impossible for men by their own strength and natural ability to become Christians, but it is possible for God to make them Christians.