As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it

As I play the game of life, I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in the night, The magic of the music seems to light the way.

Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of “experts” who made them up in the first place.

Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.

I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.

If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!