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.

Some people come into our lives leave footprints in our hearts and minds and we are never the same again.

The Jew is eternal. He is the embodiment of eternity.

I think any time we lose people, it's a hard moment.

If you want to run an ad on the iPad, it has to be approved by Apple.

Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

I have never been worried because when you have hope and peace, you can handle anything.

Just as a stool requires three legs to stand upright so the taekwondoist must cultivate basic skills, meaningful forms, and effective sparring in order to have both feet firmly planted in the art.

I die in almost every film I've been in.

Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman’s weapon is her tongue.

The process of putting the DVD and the CD together was great fun, because it provided a good excuse for the four of us to make time to get together again. I am especially pleased with the end result of these two projects.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections 'Carried Away' and 'Runaway.'

I definitely want to be involved but only while I think I can make a contribution and I make a difference.

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke - the fact that Madonna is in before Rush and Kiss. Those two bands have influenced so many groups and people other than in metal.

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing percussion very young, because I had some uncles who were musicians and all my aunts were singers.

The people who whine about Fox News are hypocrites - they say they're totally tolerant, but when they run into someone who doesn't share their assumptions, they say, 'Fox News is evil, and it must be stopped.'

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Rising demand for animal products highlights microbiological risks, with animal-welfare measures sometimes creating new hazards. For example, open pens for poultry may increase the spread of communicable diseases like avian influenza.

I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.