“Honestly, I think I’ve stretched a talent which is so thin it’s almost transparent over a quite unbelievable term of years.”

You need a plan for yourself, just like you need a plan for a business.

My golf is woeful, but I will never surrender

The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business.

[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can’t be replaced by someone.

When I’m worried and I can’t sleep, I count my blessings instead of sheep. And I fall asleep … counting my blessings.

He never contributed a damn thing to music. (on Elvis Presley)

There is nothing in the world I wouldn’t do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn’t do for me … We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.

I’m proud to acknowledge my debt to the ‘Reverend Satchelmouth’ … He is the beginning and the end of music in America

Once or twice I’ve been described as a light comedian. I consider this the most accurate description of my abilities I’ve ever seen.

That was a great game of golf, fellers.

We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.

We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.

I was blessed. I had a great childhood and great parents that loved music and family. I moved from England when I was almost 18 and been on my own ever since and have been trying to make a living in the music business for the past twelve years.

We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.

Like traditional upper class families, there are nannies and servants, and the children, you know, come in to say good-night before they go to bed.

I’m guessing the most efficient way would be to transfer an awful lot of technology, but also direct aid to deal with climate emergencies already underway. Hillary [Clinton] has already said $100 billion a year would be appropriate.

… it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.

I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.