“My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.”

We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It’s when you’re in jail you really become a criminal.

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity. To see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

If you love your life, everybody will love you too.

I can’t manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.

There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.

The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.

The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.

It’s like if you’re an astronaut and you’ve been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?

Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn’t noticed the change, I’d been having such a ball!

I think the French girls are fabulous.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.

It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.

But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.

Motherhood, building character one day at a time.

I went from broke and homeless sleeping on couches. I couldn’t even figure out what I was doing in Los Angeles. Now, I’m paying my own bills. I’m about to move my mama in with me at 19. I’m on tour now, and this is all off of one mixtape.

My mom worked for Apple, and my dad owned his own business.

My momma wasn’t a weak person and she wasn’t a complainer. So I don’t wanna be like that.

Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.

The solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.

Let’s learn from the wisdom of every mother and father who teaches their daughters there is no limit on how big she can dream and how much she can achieve.

As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.