I don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

Sicily is paradise. I live in paradise. Now pass the pasta please.

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.

Republicans look to find the future and they find radio.

Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.

Confidence is a big part of any sport, but as far as sports psycholgy, I met with one last year before the season, and hell I just felt stupid after that, so I try to stay out of there.

While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.

There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.

His gaze brushed over her, abstract and hungry. "You burn so very brightly, you know" "Yeah," she muttered. "You said.

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.

I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.