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The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.
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Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.
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There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.
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If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.
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I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.
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She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.
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When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that.
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Lovely Rita, Meter Maid, nothing could come between us. When it gets dark I'll tow your heart away
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I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.
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It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
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A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.
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Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird...
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No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.
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My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that.
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Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.
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I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one.
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I do have a spongelike ear or mentality or whatever you call it, but it's probably a bit subconscious.
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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school Lucy was a kid in his school.
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You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
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Drugs had shown me little bits here and there-they had rolled across the carpet once or twice, but I had been able to get them out of my mind.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.