Lord, give me Scotland or I die!
If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.
Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.
I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.
There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.
I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.
The thing I can say about all this stuff that's going on right now is that I appreciate it.
I think when you write songs, you write about people. . . People are the source of my material. And London is a wonderful place to be for people. So, the next time you're sitting in a park somewhere, and you see someone like me looking at you, don't phone the police. I'm just writing