The beauty of inspiration for me is that you can't predict when it's coming. I like that it just pops up out of nowhere. You just have to be open to its arrival.

Songwriting never feels like it's me doing anything consciously except for becoming aware somehow that it's time to let something out, or let something in, depending on how you look at it.

I've never thought to notate my songs...I tend to just have to remember them.

I tend to play covers when I'm gearing up for creating new song. Singing other people's songs is a way that I get inspired.

Perception, influenced by experience and knowledge creates an acceptable level of reality.

Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"

The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection.

I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write.

Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.

I try as best as I can to have a normal life. People recognise you, of course, and that's very strange. But I sort of leave my working life behind when I go home. That's my other world.

Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.