The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.

I'm not bitter, I'm bittersweet.

I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!

I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.

This really blew my mind, the fact that me, an over fed, long haired, leaping gnome, should be the star of a Hollywood movie.

It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow.

I tried to reach the combatants with my music. I tried to turn my anger into something positive. Myself, and others like me, just tried to keep rock and roll alive.

I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive.

OK, I've had a life of sort of success, some people know who I am but a lot of people don't. I feel the need to change that still.

Don’t surrender your life to a Face, a Farce, a Fence or a Force. Don’t be a Slave, be Brave.

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?

Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They’ll gather in public if you give them a good place to do it.

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

I get my inspiration from everyone when I need it and how I need it.

Excuses are the words coming from the loser in you.

When I was a kid, the bigger boys would pick on me. So I got an idea that I would make alliances with older boys, like just one or two, who would be my protectors.