Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

I believe in the goodness of life. I believe in humanity.

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

You don't notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call.

On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.

I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness.

If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.