He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio.

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.

He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.

I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.

I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me.

I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.

It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.

Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.

The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.

Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

Weve all got our self destructive bad habits the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.

The Breakfast of Champions isnt cereal its the competition

I used to have a drug problem now I make enough money.

Music is like girlfriends to me Im continually astonished by the choices other people make.

Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage.

If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.

I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.