People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.

The secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Success is buried in the garden of failure.

My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.

When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!

Tales From Topographic Oceans is like a woman's padded bra.

When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.

As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.

But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese.

Country and western is the music of the devil. Thats the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldnt handle it.

Ive been married three times and divorced three times.

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human i

It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss

I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.

Tis a lesson you should heed Try try try again If at first you don't succeed Try try try again.

Man, I think the sky is the limit for this team.

Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor.

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

What a way to pay a man back for helping you. Gah, I suck as a human being.’ (Shahara)

We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.