It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

It's better to die than to live on your knees.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

We're all living under the threat of violence and terror these days.

What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.

Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.

There's always this kind of odd idea that people would say, "Oh, do you know the Queen?" But really people are much smarter than that.

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

Life's a party, dress like it.

I simply don't want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look like a bear and live in a cave; but you should worry.

There's three things in this world that you need: Respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer.