I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like cities. I don't even like passing through them.

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.

Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

You have to jump into the pool before you know whether there's water in it.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

Just keep taking care of my body and all of that. Take care of your body, stay healthy. You'll be alright.

It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.

I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.

Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.

A great teacher makes hard things easy.

The biggest lie in choosing is, "I can't." That is simply not true. We can do anything we want If we don't do something, it is because we have committed our time, energy and resources somewhere else.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

I have no style, because I change each time . . . each day I play differently. Today I play differently than yesterday.