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.

Southerners smile more than other Americans.

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description.

I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.

I exercise every day. It's what makes me happy.

You can say that I endorse Mitt Romney, but that's not just because I'm a white man. We all have things which we're for and ideas which we support.

You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

I don't ever have the opportunity to wear a suit.

When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Up until 'Fast and Furious 7,' every movie I've made has been a film that I've created, franchises that I've created.

Its like heroin You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.

I think on 'ER,' my other long-running show, I had some ideas about what's going on. 'Stargate Universe,' they were kind of secretive too a little bit about what they wanted to do, but I kind of liked working this way. I like the surprises, and I like knowing just enough to work on the character.

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

Though Puerto Rico's ultimate political future is still uncertain, the determination of its people to insist on their own definitions of puertorriquenidad (literally, what it means to be Puerto Rican) will exist as long as the entity that is Puerto Rico exists.

In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever asking what their opinions were. Faith too is like that.

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.

My plumbing is no one's business but my own.

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.