You can only be lucky if you have a place to record.

Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition.

Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave.

I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world.

War is the enemy of all mankind.

War, what's it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.

I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been.

And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.

War can't give life, it can only take it away.

The record industry is a world within itself.

If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.

New cells are born everyday and old cells die, but they have neither funerals nor birthdays.

It took strength to be quiet. It took strength to be kind. It took strength to let other people's cruelty bounce right off of you.

As far as he was concerned, there were only two good positions for a human. A female on her back. And a male facedown not breathing.

A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house.

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

Whoever still can't put one and one together about what happened in cycling is beyond my help.

Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of French, Latin, and English grammars to memory.

"Gender trouble" is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it's sweet. I mean people are really kind about it but it's like a former love affair you had and you're done.

I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.