“It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.”

Time is on my side, yes it is.

I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.

I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.

Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It’s true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.

You can’t always get what you want.

I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

As long as my face is on page one, I don’t care what they say about me on page seventeen.

You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It’s very selfish, but it’s understandable.

If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.

I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.

Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.

Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.

We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.

Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.