“A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it.”

The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.

Instant Karma is going to get you.

Always remember this: ‘A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses.’

I cannot be what I am not.

Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.

If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn’t I don’t care.

Get back to where you once belonged.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

Before Elvis there was nothing.

We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?

Don’t underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you’re happy, who cares what you do?

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn’t represent the people. It controls them.

As I play the game of life, I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in the night, The magic of the music seems to light the way.

What I’d have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.

Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It’s much more of a business – very scientific.

Didn’t want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.

I wanted to become an engineer, or get a masters in business. But I had the opportunity to do films when I was about 25 and it was a great way to express myself.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

I started acting when I was seven-years-old. By the time I was 17 I would say: “If I’m not a star by the time I’m 18, I’ll get out of the business.”

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I’m in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.