Sometimes it will be for more money than I've ever been offered before. I mean, am I an idiot again for not doing that?

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.

Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

You have to jump into the pool before you know whether there's water in it.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.

Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.

Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.

Set your goals and go out and do what you need to do to get it.

Love is to recognize that the other person is a person, is precious, is important and has value.

I thought: Just one step. One step at a time. You don’t have to do them all at once.

I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.

You did what was right for those who agreed with you, and that is all in the past. We are talking about our future. Oliver, we cannot live as we did.

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.