Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

It's been up to me to inspire me.

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There's one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.

If you want to save youself from problems just hold the hands of truth

When people ask me what my religion is, I say it's the Arsenal.

Arsene Wenger has got to unlock the purse strings

I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.

Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.

The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life.

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

The Ukrainian opposition should adopt democratic unity as its main principle, and it also must have one leader.