That audience is there for me.

Rock'n'roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.

I hate everybody.

That audience is there for me.

I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street.

I'd like to see anyone do what I do for one week.

I believe I am the highest power, absolutely.

I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met 'em before, 'cause they heard I lived there.

No one comes to my shows so they'll feel safe and comfortable.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

You are what you are.

I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.

I am in control at all times.

Death is a very important part of life.

I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around.

Everything I own can fit in two suitcases and a foot locker.

I don't think there will ever be a GG box set.

I don't want people to think I'm a hypocrite.

I don't want people to think that I can't make fun of myself.

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.

Every show could be the last one.

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.

I don't consider myself a pariah.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

Biscuits are sweet things in Britain, and apparently in America a biscuit is something like a scone, something savory that you'd have with soup.

I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.

It is completely a God thing that I am here today because for the first 17 years of my life, I never thought I would ever do music professionally. I'd always liked what my dad did, but I never thought that I wanted to do it, just to be different.

There definitely was a time when I was pretty obsessed with my weight, but I'm better off not stressing about my body all the time.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

To have more than you've got, become more than you are.

I believe in living for this world - that's my doctrine - to make everybody happy that you can.

The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles of passionate activists over the last centuries. They won us many freedoms and protected many beauties. Count those gifts among your growing heap.

I've always felt I had to prove myself, and now it has become second nature. When I first went to university, I took lodgings with a woman who said, 'What are the chances of you staining my pans?' I said, 'I don't think I understand the question...' and she said, 'When you cook your curries.'

Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.

There's something to be said for giving and helping to change people's lives.

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

You really get your sense of women, to begin with, from your mom.

If Im going to sing like someone else then I dont need to sing at all.