The Beatles changed the world. They certainly changed my world, and many, many other individuals as well.

If you gave me a fresh carnation, I would only crush its tender petals.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.

No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course.

I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.

Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.

I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.

Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure.

This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST.

To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.

The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.

I like a lot of talk in a book and I don't like to have nobody tell me what the guy that's talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.

To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!

How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others!

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.'

I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.