If you see long term benefit in doing something, but short term pain then you should do it.
Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote "no future for you!" Don't let the irony be lost.
Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.
If you really want the truth of anything, don't use Wikipedia.
You never know how things will work out. After all the bad reasons in the world, some good came out.
Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.
I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten. . . ' You can't say anything about me. You can't put me down in any way shape or form - I'm rotten to the core. . . you know, what's left for you? Pleasantries? I suppose the worst insult you could sling my way is 'Oh, he's really nice, him. '
For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.
So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.
A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.
You know when I first thought I might have a chance? When I realized that you could go into any bar in the country and insult Lyndon Johnson and nobody would punch you in the nose.