What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.

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

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.

Sestrilla, hafelina Jue amourasestrilla Awou jue selaviena En patre jue Translation: Beloved one, little cat I love you for all time In this time And all others

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.

People are no different from flowers. If you water them, they flourish. If you are not nice to them, they shrivel up