“It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.”

In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.

Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?

I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?

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 try to work out my mind more these days. I try to eat right. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, and I take the skin off chicken. But I’m not on no special diet. I like my steak and potatoes, ice cream, doughnuts.

I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

But I must go, and I must do this thing, because my Lord will have it so. Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!

I’m changing every day as far as this rap thing. I’m learning new things. I’m getting bigger by the day.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.