Some people are denizens of the studio. I'm more of a denizen of the live appearance. I love the live thing.

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.

I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.

I learned that when you do the best job that you can do, some people will idolize you, others won't care, and some will vilify you.

You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.

Mankind invents things to fight about.

You have to be careful not to get overexposed.

The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

Still the mind in meditation and you will witness the heart’s signals and its inspired thoughts. For 20 to 30 minutes every day, capture inspired moments of heartfulness.

The wildlings seemed to think Ygritte a great beauty because of her hair; red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had it were said to be kissed by fire, which was supposed to be lucky.

Ruling elite have think tanks, they have research institutes, they've invaded universities, they've monopolized the cultural apparatuses.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

There is no real happiness in having or getting, but only in giving.

One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player for life and living it.

Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.

I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre.

There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.