One day I realized that it didn't matter whether people loved me or not.

I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.

I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action - as we'd say in Scotland.

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.

I say embrace the total geek in yourself and just enjoy it. Life is too short to be cool.

People often reveal their innermost selves in the most innocent of situations.

Just behind his jaw bones a tiny movement was perceptible, like the movement of gills in a fish.

The smallest effort is not lost Each wavelet on the ocean tost Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow Each struggle lessens human woe.

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

Know that what you do in the time of your greatest trial can be your greatest triumph

What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it.

Me I never had the chance to say,Well,I'm going to do something I want to do."I always did if for my family,for my children, for my father,for my mother."