* some views expressed in these quotations not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this file.
* for entertainment only - history is not an exact science - dates and quotes not guaranteed for accuracy.
We're more popular than Jesus now. I don't know which will go first--rock and roll or Christianity.
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the bloody night, or when you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is.
When I was a young man, I thought something was going to happen to me. I thought I was going to be famous. I didn't know what it was, specifically. I certainly didn't think it was going to be [for] murdering John Lennon.
A letter sent to the parole board on behalf of Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, had again asked that parole be denied (for Mark David Chapman, )
The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Verdi... has bursts of marvellous passion. His passion is brutal, it is true, but it is better to be impassioned in this way than not at all. His music at times exasperates, but it never bores.
I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public wants. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you're doing--even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.
It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.
My dear young sir. As I am the offended party, the choice of weapons is mine. We shall fight with orthography. You are already dead!
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Personally, I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons.