You could feel the place going crazy because we hadn't been on stage together for maybe 35 years and the audience could just feel us in the darkness come on and they went nuts. It made the little hairs stand up on the back of my neck and we sang Sit on My Face, which I thought was wonderfully appropriate for George's memorial, and then we bowed and we showed our bare asses.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.

I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.

We destroy icons - that's what we do.

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.

Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.