Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?

I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.

Dare to dream... something will always come of it

I’ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving 'cross the borders Of My Secret Life.

I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.