I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.

If you gave me a fresh carnation, I would only crush its tender petals.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.

No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course.

Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.

I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.

You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.

Only the Creator defines path of a river course.

All our works must pass through fire. Some of them will be burnt out and those that are left will be our good and useful works for the Kingdom of God

For him, I had done this-for him I'd gladly wrecked myself and my immortal soul. And now I had an eternity to live with it.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare My business is to create.

It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.

An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.

Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.

Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.

I don't believe in God for the same reason that most people don't believe in Apollo or Zeus. ... God is just human beings' way of personifying an otherwise completely natural universe.

Nay, had I pow'r, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth.