“The thing about death is it’s so final, isn’t it, really? As far as we know… Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.”

I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.

I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.

Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.

I am emphatically not a Nazi.

I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.

I didn’t really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn’t want to be in the music without the lifestyle.

I’ve never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I’d marry her.

As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.

Rock n’ roll’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.

Eddie Cochran – I never got to see him live, but he could play. Him and Buddy Holly, they were the best guitarists. They could get a good raunchy beat going.

Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.

Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe.

My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.

I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.

Women always left me because I wouldn’t commit, but then nothing changes a relationship like commitment. If you move in with someone, you lose all respect for them.

I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

If you are in the same place today as you were yesterday, you are a backslider.

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.

As the thoughts so the mind. If thoughts are good, mind is good. If thoughts are bad, the mind is called bad.

As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.

I’m trying as hard as I can to act like I’m 65, but it’s very difficult.

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

A book, as it were, closes the book.