I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.

I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

We thought humble and proud at the same time all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

Basically, I'm in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don't have a lot of scope, and I'm really picky about what I wear. Even if it's weird, it's very particular to me. And you can't make a business out of what I would wear. We'd be out of business.

Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.

American popular culture, like individuals in daily life, tends to either romanticize or demonize mothers. We ricochet between 'Everything I ever accomplished I owe to my mother' and 'Every problem I have in my life is my mother's fault.'

I lived in Beverly Hills for years. I always had a line, 'I hate the rich.' From what I witnessed after living there for 15 years, these people just don't raise their kids. I used to see the lineup of cars in front of the schools and it was all the nannies.

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.

The Constitution's Preamble, its renowned introductory passage, was written by a man with a peg-leg. Which, if you think about it, gives our Constitution hardly a leg to stand on.

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Project management is the art of creating the illusion that any outcome is the result of a series of predetermined, deliberate acts when, in fact, it was dumb luck.

It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got to high school, I got the lowdown on all the teachers and everything.

A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.

Knowing what to work on is critical to successful execution; it doesn't matter how efficient you are if you're not working on the right thing.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.

When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.

When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.