I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

I don’t care about age. Nor do I care about those who do not accept the science. I don’t have as much experience, and therefore I listen more. But I also have the right to express my opinion, no matter my age.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones and just what feels good. It takes me back to the type of music that I grew up on in my household. We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

Oh, 1994, April 27. There won’t be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

But I did ‚Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.‘ They made a cereal out of it, so once you’ve had a cereal, it doesn’t get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don’t know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

We were on for six years. We were in syndication for a while. It had its run. I still see the people from ‚Mr. Belvedere,‘ too. We stay in touch.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it – the grain, how it feels, the texture.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

In ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused – in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened – by the recurrence of Christmas.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

I loved cowboy movies when I was a kid. When I was five years old, I was already wearing a cowboy hat and suit. When I grew up, I knew John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas and so on.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

I’m the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like – and the fact that it’s not reversible.

I think it speaks of all women having those few special things that make them feel feminine. And so when I was a little girl, I would associate Guerlain with that.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.