I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.

You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.

Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.

There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.

I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.

The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.

My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.

Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have patience.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

He (Gorton) is not fit to hold the great office of Prime Minister.

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.

There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.