You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.
It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him in The Traveling Wilburys was beyond my wildest dreams!
It all comes down to what you truly love doing, and what I love doing is overdubbing and making new sounds out of things that are sometimes quite ordinary on their own, but when you put them together, they make something new--or something that sounds new. Just discovering things like that musically is a pleasure.
I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.
Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.
It was dark and misty for 2 weeks, and I didn't come up with a thing. Suddenly the sun shone and it was, 'Wow, look at those beautiful Alps. ' I wrote 'Mr. Blue Sky' and 13 other songs in the next two weeks.
Better to build orphanages than prisons.
Do not underestimate objects.
If I put myself on the side of those who see the world as warming up in a bad way, who see the general march of industrial culture as something undesirable, the one thing I must be beware of doing and which my colleagues on that side don't beware of doing, we must beware of saying we've got to stop changing the environment. There is no 'the' environment which we can change, the world is changing all the time.
Self-restraint is feeling your oats without sowing them.