I am not afraid to appear in Israel, although when I come to a place like Israel, I know it's not a picnic by the Thames. I am aware of the tension and it saddens me.

If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather.

It's only the giving that makes you what you are.

A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.

Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.

Another tea-time, another day older.

I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

Why do the faithful have such a will, to believe in something? And call in the name they choose, having chosen nothing.

Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.

You'll always be the deepest scar on my heart.

I respect, too, the fact that in our legal order it is for Congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people's representatives.

Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue, oh how my heart yearns for you.

Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.

Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.

The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality.

Only a lion can recognize a lion's roar.

I never thought about extending the promotions. Maybe I've matured but I feel that a shorter and more powerful promotion is better.