“You should never take more than you give.”

I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.

As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

That’s just a part of being an artist: you can’t write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you’d be inhuman. The human side of people is that sometimes they fail.

I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don’t take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.

My mantra is if you raise money, don’t waste it.

What a scandal, if I die. Yeah, I’m gonna kill myself, get a little headline news.

It seems to me, sorry seems to be the hardest word.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.

Unless you show off you’re not going to get noticed.

Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you’re angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold Pinter said they never went to bed on an argument.

I’m a juvenile product of the working class, who’s best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.

I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever.

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I’ve seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn.

The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something – usually ourselves.

Where envy reigns virtue can’t exist, and generosity doesn’t go with meanness.

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

Giving is the greatest gift.

Love isn’t what I have the opportunity to get from this world. Love is what I have the opportunity to give.

Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.

The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.

I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully – through me, a little – the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.