I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.

There are hard days to live. You awake to a day when you feel you've done it all before, and you're going to do it again, so why do it at all.

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.

Gratitude is not something idyllic that comes when all good things line up to be counted. Gratitude is there all the time waiting to be focused on.

Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.

Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about "welfare mothers" - a code phrase for people of colour.

Facebook is terrifying to the traditional games biz.

Sometimes we only see how people are different from us, but if you look hard enough, you can see how much we're all alike.

Intuition is the conscious experience - in pure spirit - of a purely spiritual content.

The world thus appears as a complicated tissue of events, in which connections of different kinds alternate or overlap or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole.