The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.

I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything

Some instances in life call for humility. But, sometimes you need to be flat-out brazen when it comes to the desires of your heart.

Somewhere, somehow, something arises out of the ashes of our losses to remind us that nothing ever ceases. Nothing ever vanishes. Nothing ever comes to nothing.

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.

It is throwing our life away, to think of the wrong things.

You know the old saying: "History is written by the winners. And also, the team of hand-picked historians that the winner keeps hidden away in an underground bunker".

My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.

...he who goes down to the grave does not return.

I think that if you go through life and no one hates you, then that means you're not good at anything