People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.

We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.

You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant

I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

I don't believe in original melodies. There are only so many computations of eight notes.

I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.

People have different personalities when they're drunk or take heroin, or whatever drugs.

Something that you can't play in your kitchen is rap. It is done in your neighbour's kitchen.

Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.

I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.

The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.

Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.

I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.

Thanks to everyone in Israel for the wonderful welcome. It was a great show and we'll remember it forever.

The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.

Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.

I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.

Everyone knows what their roots are, but you've got to explore everywhere. You've got to explore the sky too.

I don't know if rock is dying. I wouldn't want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!

Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.

If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.

Right now I can't be sure that I will be back on stage. We have been touring for two years and that is way too much.

I don't find it easy dealing with people with drug problems. It helps if you're all taking drugs, all the same drugs.

I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented.

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.

It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.

The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.

Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.