I’ve always thought of myself as being extremely lucky. The idea is to keep that luck going. Headlining the Stanley was a real kick. I think it’s the type of thing I could get used...

You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son’s very successful. He’s doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.

Words cannot express how proud I am to be carrying the Olympic Torch for my home, New York, New York – the greatest city in the world.

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

Things change so fast, you can’t use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We’re all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

Mission accomplished, we didn’t have any problems as far as violence goes.

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

I did, like, a couple of sexier videos, because all of a sudden I went, ‘Wow, I have a body. I have this side of me that I haven’t shown yet.’ And I started kind...

We completed and released “No Code” in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.

Playing “bop” is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.

But, really it was finding a kind of a vibe and letting that vibe carry the movie. And did I bring anything new to the mix? I don’t know.

What Brian laid out was something that felt really uneasy and bordering on feeling like I was on a boat or something. So I went with that feeling.

All gut strings. That’s just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it’s the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

How do you measure your value?

Nobody’s perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

I am blessed to have Mom and Dad.

I think he had one of the best voices I have ever heard. People say that I come close to his sound – and maybe it’s true since I admired it so much.

I was hoping for it to be possibly a movie career as I still would like to see that happen. I enjoyed making 200 Motels and did try out for a few things when I...

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

Well, no, you can prepare it all you want, but I’d still stutter.

Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun’s shining or not.

That’s basically what’s going on now: Everything is propaganda.

Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes.

You know honestly I think Simon prepared me for the critics. Simon really prepared me for a lot of things they are saying. It just rolls off my back.

Gossip is called gossip because it’s not always the truth.

The most boring thing in the world? Silence.

I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, ‘I wish this would have been brought out sooner,...

I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I’m not proud of this, and I’m not trying to promote it.

The Beatles were a pop group, but when you actually listen to the tracks, they were very rude about the way they went about things.

If you love god, burn a church.

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Shock is still fun. I won’t ever shut the door on it.

I try to do as many stunts as they’ll let me do. I think it’s important for an audience to feel that the actor’s really doing it.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

While I recognize in the back of my mind that I am an occasionally brilliant guitar composer and arranger, innovator and player.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

I tend to eat what I want, which probably isn’t good.

I couldn’t begin to name names… in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet… and some of the nicest as well.

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.

I haven’t read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.

Everything is a battle with this band.

I’d like to do a Christmas album. I’ve never done a Christmas album.

I mean, as long as it doesn’t have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things that went out of style 30 years ago. As things go around, they come around.

After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name.

I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school – snare and timpani mostly.

I had a band in St. Louis. By then, things that influenced me were the first Stones albums, the first Byrds albums, later the Velvet Underground.