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.

The soil is the gift of God to the living.

Federal research dollars invested at the National Institutes of Health seem expensive until we factor in the economic growth and jobs created by our world-leading life sciences industry.

Just remember some come some go. The ones that stay with you through everything theyre your true best friends. Dont let go of them.

I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.

I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

I'll usually see a scene in my head, playing like a movie trailer. After I've written that scene, everything takes off from there.

I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

Writing a novel that crosses genres is a risk, but one well worth taking.

My best advice to entrepreneurs is this: forget about making mistakes, just do it.

Pot lucks are fun, especially when you encourage your guests to bring dishes that represent their families or cultures.

That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.

Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

I love acting. I love performing.

I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect.

I'm sure there have been missed opportunities, with films I've turned down that went on to be successful, but everyone in the industry has had that happen.

A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.

When the gate drops its time to try and execute the best you can.