Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.

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

The story we write today will support the next generation.

O! Learn to read what silent love hath writ:to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.

I believe there's only good cinema and bad cinema.

Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life.

I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

There are only those you can live with, and those you can work to change.

To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.

I love flat shoes, more so than heels. One of my obsessions is men's co-respondent lace-ups.

I liked the shaver so much, I bought the company.