When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It’s not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that...

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave me so much pleasure.

I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.

They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun.

I didn’t get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I did live in New York. Yeah, I moved to L.A. for ‘Community.’ And I gave up my apartment in New York.

You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.

For years, the West supported Mubarak and gave aid for what it hoped was stability – but was actually stagnation – in the Middle East.

The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition.

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I’m Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

Time gave us memory.