You're making something that won't be what it is until some unknown date in the future. All aspects of the personal disappear.

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.

But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got.

Plan from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.

customers away. The Palais-Royal has become a veritable den of iniquity,

Now as to politeness... I would venture to call it benevolence in trifles.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

People in New England think that the Red Sox won that series, three games to four.

I want to be apart of something that can only be explained by the hand of God!

Movies are about escape.

Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.

The funnier the material, the funnier I could make it.