"The main thing is to play your heart out and whatever helps you to do that is the right way".

Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can take that away from you is you.

Every crossroad in life has four options – quit, adapt, proceed, or accept, but quitting is a dead-end.

A conglomerate of complicated words, they confuse, condemn and cajole, created, he is sure, for the sole purpose of fuddling the listener, which in this case is regrettably him.

Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

A person does not hear sound only through the ears; he hears sound through every pore of his body. It permeates the entire being.

I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new.

Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.

The main target for the next years should be growth and job creation.

When attention is given to the spiritual aspect of one's life, it brings a sense of belongingness, and responsibility, compassion and caring for the whole of humanity.

Some lessons are only delivered in the form of pain.