Make life an art rather than art from life.

It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.

You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.

Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!

Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!

The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

I’m not interested in teaching books by women.

The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.

Every one has strengths. Turn your strengths into competencies for your success and you are responsible for your success

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

I don't want to be Carrie Bradshaw. I don't want the wedding to be bigger than Big. I'm just grateful to know that the first time I fell in love wasn't the last time.

Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

Without trying to get too self-indulgent, there's a fine line between making something that's soundtracky and cinematic, or making it sound like a bad 70s prog-rock record.

I would say to everybody that hydraulic fracking is safe.

Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.

Thou call'st me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.