There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

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.

I think people get lost in becoming someone other then themselves when they spend too much time in the presence of those who don't bring out the best in them.

You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?

Golf is hugely important, as it keeps me going.

Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.

Donald Trump never apologizes for anything to anyone.

[My kids] were very young at the time and didn't realize what was going on. We told them that mom made a mistake and people want to talk about it in the news so they're outside our house.

…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.