My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.

The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your door.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird...

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

[There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more relevant to economic decisions.

I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova.

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.

True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility.

The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.