Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.

If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather.

It's only the giving that makes you what you are.

A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.

Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.

Another tea-time, another day older.

I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

Why do the faithful have such a will, to believe in something? And call in the name they choose, having chosen nothing.

Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.

If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.

Being able to express myself through music and art has always been when I feel the most alive.

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.

I'm not a guy who can go in and go, "Hey, are we doing right or wrong?" I just do it. And whatever it is, it is.

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.

Gasahol is socialism's fuel.

The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.