My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

Sometimes you work with somebody you've never heard of because you just feel like working.

I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.

I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.

I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.

I loved working with Bob Dylan.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

I think we've always been better live.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sence enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us - like electricity and horses and steam.

If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.

The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities.

Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.

If you ever were bullied, you always remember that feeling.

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground

Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.