“I started resenting how much art robs from life. I'd go to a party and I couldn't enjoy myself, even sexually. All I could think was how I was going to reinvent the experience into a piece of art.”
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“I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.”
“I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.”
“Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.”
“Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.”
“I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'”
“When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.”
“I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt Pepper. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out. I was never completely crazy with cocaine. I'd been introduced to it and at first it seemed OK, like anything that's new and stimulating. When you start working your way through it, you start thinking: 'Mmm, this is not so cool an idea,' especially when you start getting those terrible comedowns.”
“I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.”
“I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour.”
“Donald Trump is going to be an unconventional president. I really think we have a great opportunity in front of us to fix problems, produce results, and improve people's lives.”
“I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance”
“Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.”
“In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.”
“We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.”
“The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.”
“You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? ... I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn't turn into ... a Zahir.”
“Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.”
“We are what we do, and not what we think we must do.”
“Don't think about what you've left behind.”