I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger.

I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.

It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?

You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.

Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.

Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight.

I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.

I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way.

I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.

I don't like jeans with holes in 'em. I like 'em faded.

I find words really hard.

I live for now, not for what happens after I die.

I want to be in the best band in the world again.

I'll never have a stylist.

I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.

I'm not looking for guidance.

I've got to be by trees, otherwise I get claustrophobic.

If I like something, I get it and I put it on.

My favorite album would have to be something from The Beatles.

New York is my favorite city in the world.

Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.

The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up.

You've either got it or you haven't.

It gets better and better being me

Everyone knows that if youve got a brother youre going to fight.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.

The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

I try to give positive energy in all my shows.

In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful.

I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era.

I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.

You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race.

As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.

Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.

When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

If for no other reason than the energy crisis now facing this country, the federal government should be eager to become partners with us in rebuilding our city.

It takes a lot of energy to teach.