It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.

The only time I even entertain the tiniest element of religion is for Christmas carols.

Never stand on one spot, always be doing something in line with your calling

You can find hope in despair. Dwell on positive thoughts.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy.

These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.

First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel.

When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.