The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.

I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin the right notes or the wrong notes.

Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.

I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.

I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing.

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

Men can dig wells, but they can’t create water.

You need to take control of your own destiny.

I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.

The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God.

On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.

I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

The two that are one, the one that is all!

The Cross was the manifestation of Divine love without reserve or limit; but it was also the expression of man's unutterable malignity.

Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.