Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.

I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything

I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.

…And my heart openedlike a flower under sky, its petals of desire, its stamens of dreams…

A man or woman becomes happy by choosing happiness every day.

Against inebriation – and for drunkenness! Burn down the liquor stores, and replace them with playgrounds!

It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week.

A concert is always like a feast day to me.

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

Investors have very short memories

I'm looking forward to playing some really despicable characters at some point in my career so I can branch out and stretch those acting muscles. But I wouldn't want to do that on a regular basis.