Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.

Everyone in rock 'n roll including myself was touched by Elvis's spirit, I was, and always will be a fan.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.

The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.

Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

Sexiness is a state of mind - a comfortable state of being. It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.

The moment a career is on a quantitative downswing, your loathsomeness is sort of attenuated.

An office is a place to... live life to the fullest. To the max. To... an office is a place where dreams come true.

I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that at least pretends sometimes to be a democracy.