There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some sort of drone instrument, and there's always percussion.

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.

For one more time, he decided to give away smoking.And then, she happened one more time in his head.

The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.

It's important to me to say what I really mean.

You have a choice in life very often whether you do good or you feel good.

I get my dance moves from just moving around and listening to music and not really worrying about if it's perfect or not.

I'm looking to get better, and anything that will help me accomplish that, I'm all ears.

My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.

However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble.

It's funny: I've been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don't really have an agent - I don't really pursue jobs, I let people come to me.

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.