If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

A good thing never ends.

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

I'm thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

Your experiences are not limited to what you have created in the past

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.

When you win, don't swagger. When you lose, don't sulk.

So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.

Prayer is your way, often the only way, to water the harvest. By prayer you can bring the Holy Spirit's blessing on any gospel effort anywhere in the world.