Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.

Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they totally ignore me, they don't come to my shows, I just don't exist for them and they don't exist for me.

I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later wont fall.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.

I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here.

You were my favorite mistake. A masquerade that nice guys can persuade with such charming ways and leave you with such heartache.

I usually stick out my hand and hope he puts the ball in it. Except the one time I went out to take Early Wynn out. I stuck out my hand and he hit me right in the stomach with the ball.

I'm not interested in the mad race. I just like working with good people.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful year, but I wrote 'The Beforelife' within a year.

Even if we don't have any knowledge in this life, we have and tend to rely on relevant true beliefs; and that's sufficient for inquiry.

What I do want is to be transparent about where I am and how I got here. I don't like the cone of silence - it didn't do me any favors in my 20s or 30s, and I don't see it doing much for other women, either.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.

I think I've started to dream in American a little bit.

The only thing I've ever wanted to do is really make people happy, offer some sort of positivity with music that I've written. The Chili Peppers do that for people. They're already established. I still want something that came out of me, and out of my heart.

This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.

There's a lot of interest in Nano outside India.

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

It's all about becoming a more well-rounded player and not a one-dimensional player. You might hear someone say, 'Hilton Head sets up well for them.' I don't want that stereotype.

Marketing is a contest for people's attention.

I can't even remember when the Seventies was.

On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

In my house, I'm not allowed to shout at anybody. It's very strict. It's a very Christian home.

When I was in the eighth standard, I would dance to 'Suraj hua madham.' I have to achieve many things before I become even the 'S' of SRK.