It's important to know all those things, but part of our jobs is to move people along and to make people excited to buy music or buy clothes, and give them enjoyment, I think, too.

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.

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.

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.

Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

All that we are and will be, praise be to God.

It takes a strong person to stand up to his or her fate and overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of freedom and success, but I believe in you.

Having high resilience does not mean it doesn't sometimes sting.

With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint.

I agonize over things like this - the order of things, section titles, all this architectural sort of stuff. Takes me years to figure out.

A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.

Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war.

Seems like I'm in a dream. Prince dead at 57. There are no words to describe this loss.