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I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

A good thing never ends.

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

You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

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

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

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

I don't think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It's not necessarily some state of grace.

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

I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.

Lets drink to the hard working people
Lets drink to the salt of the earth

I don't like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.

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

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

Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers.

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

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

I love America, but I can't spend the whole year here. I can't afford the taxes

Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

You can't be jealous and be a leader.

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

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45.

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

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.

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

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

You've got to have fresh wardrobe. You can't just go out there looking like you did last time. That helps your transformation.

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

Anyone taking heroin is thinking about taking heroin more than they're thinking about anything else. That's the general rule about most drugs.

Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.

I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don't see it as an immediate problem.

I don't watch much ESPN. Unless they have soccer on.

Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.

Have I turned into a motorized preacher? We spend so much time in cars that if you don't try to get some experiences out of it, you can go crazy.

It's Only Rock and Roll.

I have to get up the fitness level, sing a lot, practice, get in the mood, and generally do lots of rehearsal. Get your body and mind ready.

Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.

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

I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.

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

When I'm 33, I quit.

All dancing is a replacement for sex

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

I didn't have any inhibitions. I saw Elvis and Gene Vincent, and I thought, "Well, I can do this." And I liked doing it.

The elusive nature of love ... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

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

I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.

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

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

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

He stole my music but he gave me my name.

It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.

For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

I don't want to be my extravert self all the time.

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

I don't want to be singing Satisfaction when I'm 40.

There's no great technical expertise in being a movie producer.

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

Well, don't we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?

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

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.

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

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

I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.

I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

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

You can't always get what you want.

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

Dandelions don't tell no lies ...

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

You never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're going to behave.

Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.

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

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

Don't take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.

You better stop
Look around
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
Here comes your nine-teenth nervous breakdown.

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

I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.

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

I've managed to avoid tattoos so far.

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

Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.

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

I have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band.

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

I didn't want to make teenage comedies, and I didn't want to make really trashy films. I wanted to make films that were a bit challenging.

I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it.

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

Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.

No one, but no one, is equal, or ever will be. Elvis was and is supreme.

You don't always do the same things you've done the night before. That's what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.

Time is on my side, yes it is.

I would like to reach a balance and forget a few things.

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