There's such a wealth of great music, clothes or whatever. There is so much great stuff out there, that why would you not still be interested if you've grown up in that kind of culture?

If you gave me a fresh carnation, I would only crush its tender petals.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.

No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course.

I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.

Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.

I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.

Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.

Sometimes the only thing you need to change in order to be successful is your attitude.

Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life for all things else being equal our prayers are only as powerful as our lives

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.

Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.

Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.

Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you.

'Born This Way' is shaping up to be creative ecstasy.

But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?