1- “As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.”
2- “Don’t be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can. You’ve got to be out there adventuring with the voice. Because if you’re just a singer for the sake of it, it’s not quite enough.”
3- “Ten minutes in the music scene is the equal of one hundred years outside of it.”
4- “There’s still time to change the road you’re on…”
5- “The way I see it, rock n’ roll is folk music.”
6- “Finding another way to do what I know I can do pretty well. A way that stimulates me. I’m always on some sort of learning curve. If I can continually be surprised then I’m alert.”
7- “When you’re 20 years old and you’re making points with volume and dynamism, it’s a fantastic thing to do.”
8- “Music means communication to me. I say ‘listen you people out there, listen to my music, let’s be one.’ Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can’t define music ’cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it.”
9- “All I can say is that it’s amazing what you can accomplish when you’re young and foolish.”
10- “The calendar and the mirror – they’re bastards.”
11- “The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy”
12- “I don’t know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.”
13- “Some audiences can shake and bang their heads on the stage to riffs all night long, but subtlety is an art that must be mastered if you’re going to be remembered.”
14- “The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.”
15- “Don’t be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can.”
16- “Life is life. You do a lot of different things and you have great adventures but there’s not a lot to talk about unless you’re in the middle of an adventure at the time. Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really.”
17- “There’s nothing new under the sun – you just get a can of paint out.”
“Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative.”
18- “I use the music almost as a compass in some kind of quasi-romantic way. I try and go to places that I’m intrigued by, and I take this music with me, using my name at the front.”
19- “Life isn’t moving quickly – time moves very quickly. “
20- “Music is for every single person that walks the planet.”
21- “You have nothing. One should never allow themselves to think that they have, one can just touch – to have is to lack appreciation, to touch is to want to touch again.”
22- “I think we’re in a disposable world and ‘Stairway to Heaven’ is one of the things that hasn’t quite been thrown away yet.”
23- “Everybody’s got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career goes. Which would have sent me tottering into the abyss.”
24- “I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.”
25- “My mother was a gypsy, and she had a lot of dark blood in her, and her hair was very, very thick – she couldn’t even get a brush through it. So I have been very fortunate. And every time I go to cut it off, hairdressers refuse to do it.”
26- “There’s no point stepping up to the golden platform if you’re going to repeat yourself.”
27- “[Elvis] Presley was definitely a great inspiration to every guy who ever had a hard-on in the whole of the Western world, I should think. He shook everybody well and true, and we just kept on shakin’. But he started it.”
28- “You know sometimes words have two meanings.”
29- “I come from a very small island which is packed with people. I mean, jam-packed with people. I’ve lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity, which I try to avoid. Austin is a great sort of stepping-off point, if you like. I’m from a temperate climate.”
30- “Being good isn’t just about being dextrous and being flash. Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world of music.”
31- “People say that I’m a millionaire, but that’s not true – I only spend millions.”
32- “You know, people can’t fall in love with me just because I’m good at what I do.”
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