The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.

If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination.

What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent.

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

I loved Christmas. We had a really great time. But there wasn't - it was all - you had to be happy with, you know, an orange and a couple of walnuts, you know, in your stocking.

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.

As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home.

There’s plenty of emphasis on success in our culture, but we have to help people focus on significance as well.

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.

When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond satisfying the market's every whim and desire.

But in New York, it’s different—even uptown it’s really grand, and there’s no real segregation there. It’s all mixed up.

In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

Where the states are dead set on suppressing political opposition, it's very hard to overcome that.

Between loving friends there need be no secrets . . . the trusting heart is always safe with another who truly cares.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.