“I don’t think rock ‘n roll is necessarily a young man’s game. I think Neil Young is just as rock’n’roll now as he was in his 20s.”

From an early age I didn’t buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job.

I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

I’d like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.

I awoke one day to find myself famous.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.

I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.

I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.

Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.