I'm an air-conditioned gypsy.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.

I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything

If there is no dream, there will be no hope. If there is no hope there will be no life.

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.

How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.

I—I didn't think—" "That," said Professor McGonagall, "is obvious.

When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it.

This is why angels choose sides, why people join teams. It costs too much not to; it weighs too heavily to soldier on alone.

Running a business is making a difference in people's lives

You still haven’t eaten your muffin. (Sunshine) ‘Yeah, right. He still hadn’t eaten his boots either, and he’d rather feast on one of them than that thing in her hand.’ (Talon)

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.