I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I’m invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who’ll play the piano after dinner, and I know you’re not really invited for yourself. You’re just an ornament.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

I love movement. I love moshing.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement – it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

Frank Lloyd Wright… his things were beautiful but not very functional.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Even though I’m known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

I’ve been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I’m a philistine. I like the good life too much; I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

I just want to keep writing music.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

Although I’ve been living in the British Virgin Islands for some time now, I have never stopped caring passionately about the U.K. and its great people.