Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.

I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything

There is no "the secret", you are just too lazy.

Success is the joy found in the experiences unveiled in the pursuit and progressive realisation of a desired goal or dream.

He who is happy in his hut is better than he who is miserable in his palace.

The ultimate goal of writing is forgiveness.

Man governs himself more by impulse than reason

"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life."

Every one is witty for his owne purpose.

Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.