What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination.

The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.

Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent.

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

I loved Christmas. We had a really great time. But there wasn't - it was all - you had to be happy with, you know, an orange and a couple of walnuts, you know, in your stocking.

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.

As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

Knowledge is what makes the human being rich and not otherwise. Whoever thinks that money determines rich or poor is so wrong or in another way to put it he/she is so shallow

Burn yourself with the fire of love to enjoy the fiery, burning beauty of love.

Whoever challenges freaks should noticethat in the method he does not mature into a beast.

The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.

It takes a long time to fully become who you are.

I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.

You don't have to flaunt your success, but you don't have to apologize for it, either

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

judge not that ye be not judged

As soon as I got funny, I killed any majestic intentions in my work.