I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

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.

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

I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.

A day is a day. It’s just a measurement of time. Whether it’s a good day or a bad day is up to you. It’s all a matter of perception.

Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?

Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemons off the tree! I don't want to forget who I am, what has burned in me, and hang limp and clean, an empty dress -

We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.

I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.

To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil with evil is evil.

Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.

I know Donald Trump; he's a winner; he's committed; and he has intended all along to do what he thinks is necessary to save America.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?