Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.

Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.

There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks

Feed the world. Let them know it's Christmas time again.

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

I didnt know there were so many ways you could walk down stairs until the day we filmed Hermiones entrance into the Yule Ball Hall.

We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

When you have a dream, it's going to be a lot of "I can't" people. You need to be the driving force to say I can.

Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.

If stealing a few saltshakers was wrong I didn't want to be right.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things

One more minute of this, and she’d be a certifiable simpleton.