I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.

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.

Be flexible and adapt easily to new things

Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.

Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

Love resolves. Love. Love's deeper than the hurt.

No, I do my torturing in the dungeon like any other respectable castle owner.

My process is always the same. Maybe that's why I stay so consistent, it really doesn't change. I only know one way to record and do things.

The audience falls in love with a leading man because he'll never belong to any of them.

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.