Right now I can't be sure that I will be back on stage. We have been touring for two years and that is way too much.

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

A good thing never ends.

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

Human mind is the most unreliable thing in the universe. So control it.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.

It's hard to hear the story of a love affair between two straight men, one of whom is the most divine woman alive.

The Mormons are very smart people. I know many Mormons.

I hope that Angela Merkel can become the chancellor of the rebuilding of Europe, in close cooperation with the role that I will play in the process.

Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

There is a great temptation with songs, melodies and lyrics to overcomplicate them but in fact, you find that the most enduring melodies are often the simplest.

I sometimes close my eyes during a show because I have drawn a picture of an audience enjoying the show more on the back of my eyelids.