There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park.

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

Then you get to be involved with all the people, meet all the beautiful girls, get all the good food, get ready and locked in before all the crowds hit.

I wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.

We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.

One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.

What we're saying now is you have a choice: You can stay, or you can go away.

Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.

We're giving RCA another record, and that should finish them.

When we toured... I was hungry to take out people like Jeff Beck in front of us; Fleetwood Mac, just before they hit; Heart, just before they hit.

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

I don't blame it on the Hell's Angels. I blame it on the people who were there.

Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.

You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.

Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.

There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.

It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.

I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.

I think most non-Christians who try to be good people are probably better Christians than Christians.

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.

If you would keep young: be cheerful, keep working, and love one another.

Anarchy doesn't mean out of control; it means out of their control.

Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into an environment where other ethnicities, less cynical and more positive, will play a big role in its future.

It's no use crying over spilt milk

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Simple ingredients can be used to make elegant dishes with just a little extra attention to detail.

One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.

I think I was always bound to become two selves, if I wasn't already.

If you hold back your feelings because you are afraid of getting hurt you end up hurting anyway.

Cricket is about a lot more than playing by the rules Mistry. Its a gentlemans game. Dont you ever forget that.

To generalize is to be an idiot.

If I make $30,000 a month, I'll spend $29,999. I tell friends, 'Oh, you need money to go to college?' I'm a little crazy, but the backwash is heaven.

Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business.

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you won't hear an English accent. You'll hear every accent under the sun apart from the British accent.

Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.

To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

Everybody wants to reach the top of the mountain, but there is no growth at the peak. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.

Tackling the environment should not be a licence to lecture people, because they have no excuse not to exercise, or eat their fruit and vegetables. Nannying - at least among adults - is likely to be counterproductive. Providing information is empowering; lecturing people is not. So, no excuses, no nannying.