It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy

All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

Kashmir is my last resort. I think, if I truly deserve it one day, I should go there and stay there for quite a while. Or if I really need it at any point, it should be my haven, my Shangri-la.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

Don't be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can.

You have nothing. One should never allow themselves to think that they have, one can just touch - to have is to lack appreciation, to touch is to want to touch again.

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

('Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. 'Kashmir' is.

Protect your self-esteem and self-confidence - it is your responsibility!

Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.

Baseball, of all sports, and maybe of all human endeavors, has no room for cynicism.

My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant.

The original deal we made was that Walker would be treated like a regular movie, rather than an arthouse thing.

It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.

I never worked on the school newspaper.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?

The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.