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Money's only important when you don't have any.

I quite like mistakes. I think they're human.

Takes more than combat boots to make a man.

Be yourself, no matter what they say.

I've spent too many years at war with myself, the doctor has told me it's not good for my health.

Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories.

I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.

I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.

Our politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

If you love someone, set them free.

Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.

If you love somebody, set them free.

At night a candle's brighter than the sun

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Love is stronger than justice.

I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.

Like music, yoga is a journey
one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.

Turn the clock to zero, honey, we're starting up a brand new day.

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

My logic's been drowned in a sea of emotion.

I never made promises lightly
There may have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left
We will walk in fields of gold

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.

The search for perfection is all good and well ...
But to look for heaven is to live here in hell.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

The compass spins between heaven and hell, let your soul be your pilot, let your soul guide you.

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.

They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.

I went off to fight some battle that I'd invented inside me.

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.

Letizia Gambi is a stunning vocalist

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

I see a city in the desert lies
The vanity of an ancient king
But the city lies in broken pieces
While the wind howls and the vultures sing

I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

I find that the rhythm of going on long walks will suggest melodies.

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.

Don't judge me, you could be me in another life.

The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet.

My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.

Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

Our so-called leaders speak
With words they try to jail you
The subjugate the meek
But it's the rhetoric of failure

Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

Men go crazy in congregation. They only get better one by one.

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on one side.

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.

The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.

I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

Nothing in your life is beyond redemption.

Hell is full of high court judges.

Every day is a brand new day!

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

I don't like singing before noon.

I think I'm a focus for international attention.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

Sweet desert rose
Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this

I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.

If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

I've been to every single book I know
To soothe the thoughts that plague me so.

There's no religion but sex and music.

How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?

...being in love is to be relieved of gravity.