I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

When something is not good, it's bad. Period

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

One day you will just wake up and you will do not want to remember that it was real fact, what has happened before you fell asleep.

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.

I was a first time bride at 44. I had never even lived with anybody. And after running my own business for many years, I knew how to be the boss - but I had no idea how to be a good partner.

Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.

The more there is a European solution to a theoretical, but possible, problem in the markets, the less we will have to talk about an I.M.F. solution.

I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

I think the biggest misconception about experimental film in general is that it is always difficult and inaccessible.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.