It's always good to play New York. The Apollo is a great gig. I loved that.

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.

I believe there are only three businesses: my business, other people's business, and God's business.

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

Value the wisdom of humility, as well as the sense of perspective it gives you.

Keep you enemies in front of you.

The more women looke in their glasse, the lesse they looke to their house. [The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house.]

That's what I mean by being bilingual: comfortable in your skin, comfortable with all parts of who you are.

Because a women's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.

If I feel like King King, I'll throw like King King.

You either believe women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas.