Something that you can't play in your kitchen is rap. It is done in your neighbour's kitchen.

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.

Very few people have the nerve to grab their dreams. Most that you meet will be half-images or carbon copies of who they really want to be.

It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.

I thought, well, if we're inviting an audience, let's do it right. So I put in a proper studio audience at our studios in Los Angeles and it was just a little showcase and it was just for fun.

You will never know how sharp a sword is unless it's drawn from its sheath

I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly as you want it to be.

The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.

When I first had a video camera to document a performance, it was in Sweden and I remember it was really crucial for me.

The big art is our life.

The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.

Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.