I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently - if I had walked around the studio or gone out - it wouldn't have turned out that way.

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that.

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

I like surfers. Their imagery, it's great.

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.

At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing.

I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.

Then I got together with my brother and a friend and we decided to play dates. The more we played, the more we wanted to do it. And it got to a stage where we wanted to do it all the time.

What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man.

I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.

I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently - if I had walked around the studio or gone out - it wouldn't have turned out that way.

When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.

Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.

Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done.

I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting.

When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.

Money and Corruption Are ruining the land Crooked politicians Betray the working man Pocketing the profits And treating us like sheep And were tired of hearing promises That we know theyll never keep

Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies I am an apeman.

Money and corruption are ruining the land crooked politicians betray the working man pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep and were tired of hearing promises that we know theyll never keep.

Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain.

A restless spirit who can't reach his goal, can't find a home until I've found my soul.

I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Somebody thinking that they can make noise intimidate me is comical.

If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

Harassment is the background radiation of my life. It is a factor in every decision I make. Any time I tweet something or make a post, I'm always thinking about it.

Polls can change; people's opinions can change. Voting intentions can change, and I think it would be a silly leader, a silly political party, that would assume that we have it sewn up.

I'm convinced to do improv. All you have to do is listen to what people are saying to you, and then just add more information to what they've just said. That's all there is to improv, but it's the hardest thing to do.

I'm really excited that I'm able to work again.

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.

Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.

My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.

I was in better shape when I went into boot camp than when I came out.

Honestly, I try to forget Fashion Week once it's over. I just want to go home and rest and just forget I even did it. It could drive you crazy! It's just show after show after show, and you're missing your family and they feel really far away. You don't go to sleep. You work for a month.

After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.

America is facing a looming shortage of doctors, nurses, and physicians' assistants.

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service.

I've never been in love, but if a penguin can find a soul mate, I'm sure I can, too.

Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.

It's a lot of wonderful things about the Bay area and Oakland that I absolutely love. I wouldn't change being from there by any stretch.