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You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love...I love...I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.
Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'
We were blood brothers, pals forever. He was my very best friend. Nobody else could see him. I now know he was just pretend.
My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.
With 'Wagon Wheel,' I loved the visual it painted, and it's a song I can truly say I look forward to performing every night.
I'm not a studio rat. I do find sitting around playing the same song 12 times kind of tedious. I like to get in and get out.
I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again.
Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.
Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does.
It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'
People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that.
I'm an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.
I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.
Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd.
I think that when I got to a certain age, it was important to me to sort of analyze my relationship with myself and my past.
When you're pregnant or living with an infant, there's a kind of sacredness around your body that affects everything you do.
If you've got a good song, it's easy to play. But you can't make a bad song sound good no matter who you have to play on it.
When you're onstage, you can see the front row and get a general impression of what's going on, but you're in your own zone.
The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.
Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.
Ultimately the love can become so big that we can love the whole of creation instead of 'I love this but I don't like that.'
You're asking me will my love grow. I don't know, I don't know. You stick around now it may show. I don't know, I don't know
A lot of people like me, who've been around for years and years and years, only really lose it in their forties and fifties.
I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work.
My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite.
It's a deliberate choice. I am a fervent supporter of the idea that you don't have to have wall-to-wall music in good films.
Unless you can't take care of yourself or stuff like that, I'm always standin' for you to hold onto life as much as you can.
I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.
For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.
America sold VX nerve gas and anthrax to Iraq for years, even after the Halabja gas attack, which killed thousands of Kurds.
Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
It can be disheartening to see acts that don't necessarily have any input on their own material to do so well in the charts.
I personally know women who are Breast Cancer survivors and will do all I can to support the cause. Besides, I love boobies!
I don't do a lot of collaborations that I don't believe in. Actually, I don't do any collaborations that I don't believe in.
I think the cynicism that you have when you've just gone through a break-up is a luxury that you allow yourself for a while.
I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.
Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'
Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing.
You can only follow what's on your mind. In fact, a song is something you write because you can't sleep unless you write it.
Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.
A Cat Stevens record isn't just Cat Stevens' ideas. It's Cat Stevens and all the musicians who play with Cat Stevens, right?
You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.
I'll be a good boy, please make me well. I promise you anything, get me out of this hell. Cold turkey has got me on the run.
News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)
I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.
The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.
The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.