You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

A good thing never ends.

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

Don’t let the poison of the past spoil a fruitful future.

... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

It ain't so easy writing about nothin

According to a brand new report, alcohol abuse in Ireland is on the rise. Mainly because the guy who didn't drink now does.

Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist in the same way as I exist?" "You do not exist.

We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.

But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.