One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.

When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions.

If the plan is to see what happens, a team is guaranteed to succeed - at seeing what happens - but won't necessarily gain validated learning - If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.

It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it.

I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.

Why is it upset? Shouldn't it be downset?

The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.

Everyone has this conjecture that action films are somewhat less prestigious than dramatic films. Nothing could be further from the truth. I've done them both and this is hard and dangerous.