John Quotes

I had progressed on stage as a performer, but I hadn't progressed as a human being.

On a street of right and wrong in every inch of sadness, rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

On Keith Richards: He's like a monkey with arthritis.

I can't think of anything until I've got printed words in front of me. I never wake up in the middle of the night with a song in my head.

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.

There is such a thing as good interference from your record label. I don't think I get enough interference from my record label.

What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it.

What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together.

Lawdy Mama, those Friday nights when Suzy wore her dresses down tight.

And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.

I just think you shouldn't expect people to pay money to see someone sing live and then lip-synch.

I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!

I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better.

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada.

I cannot bear successful people who are miserable.

People in England are so bloody nosy.

I spent the last week of Ryan's life in Indiana, Indianapolis, with Jeanne and Andrea, Jeanne, his mother, Andrea, his sister, and some other beautiful people who came. And it taught me a lesson.

He's been dead for so many years, but I'm still trying to impress him. That's what gave me my drive. 'Look at me, Dad, I've succeeded.'

Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.

Simon Cowell and I are great friends and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing.

The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards.

Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually.

And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.

I've always enjoyed and loved playing live. I relish and cherish it more than anything else because you never know what the performance is going to be.

Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.

We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.

I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all stem from the same Abrahamic roots. All three reject terrorism.

The discipline of singing early music has a special sound - (it's) very clear.

For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to the subtlety of nature.

Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.

There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that it is hardly worth while to be here at all.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

I have read somewhere or other, - in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, - that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws.

I wouldn't be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish.

Batistuta gets most of his goals with the ball

Well Terry, can you tell us where you are in the league, how far are you ahead of the second team?

Once you're on the wheel, you don't come off.

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

That love motivates you to cooperate, respect, appreciate, cherish, and admire that person.

Anything that makes you feel good is always going to be drawing in more.

The ceiling was curved, giving the space a cave-like feel, and it was either very large, very small, or sort of normal-sized.

I do not know what happened with your parents or why they did what they did. But in all the world, I could have wished for no daughter but you.

But I guess everything in life is a bit disappointing, isn't it?