"Talent - really, everyone agrees, it's multidimensional, and often overlooked in standard assessments. That's not hard for people to accept."

“A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.”

Source : Alluding to his many imitators. Quoted in David Pickering Brewer's Twentieth Century Music (1994).

“Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement”

Source : "'Whatever the lady does is wrong'". www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2005.

“Don't misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.”

“I like me food. I also don't like me exercising. It's something me don't do very well. But it's something I've got to get into.”

“I don't know what it is to love the way they love-they would jump off a bridge for me. I can't do that. I can only say, I owe you.”

“Shift the focus from what you want to do, to how you want to be... how you want to feel.”

“For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials.”

“Its fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system.”