We didn't come here to set any fashions in music. We merely came to bring a much-needed touch of home to some lads who have been here a couple of years.

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people.

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one.

We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by the public.

You don't have to do anything. Why worry? It's all god's plan anyway. Just love everyone and believe.

If the mind fits, shrink it.

Hold onto your innocence of heart, at all costs! Because it is the spark of deity that you are born with. Don’t let the trolls steal your divineness.

CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"?

I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.

I don't want to ever, ever give that kind of pain to one living mortal. And I will not give that thought power in my life. That's my practice.

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.

I've never been outside Heathrow so it will be exciting to see what London has to offer. I think I've only flown into Heathrow maybe twice.

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

I don't like half the folks I love.