Think Quotes

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

If you follow your dreams, it means you follow your heart. If you do follow your heart, I don't think you can go wrong

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

You're born in pain. Pain is what we are in most of the time, and I think that the bigger the pain, the more God you look for.

When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me. You just scream.

I think Mick [Jagger] got jealous. I was always very respectful about Mick and the Stones but he said a lot of tarty things about the Beatles, which I am hurt by. I'd like to just list what we did and what the Stones did two months after on every f***king album... he imitates us.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.

Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like.

I've made two 'discoveries' in my life: Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono. I think that's a pretty damned good choice.

Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the way...That's another piece of garbage. What the hell's it based on? We couldn't've come from anything--fish, maybe, but not monkeys. I don't believe in the evolution of fish to monkeys to men. Why aren't monkeys changing into men now? It's absolute garbage. It's absolutely irrational garbage, as mad as the ones who believe the world was made only four thousand years ago, the fundamentalists.

I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only since it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now.

When you have a special gift you don't realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

I think I'm smart unless I'm really, really in love and then I am ridiculously stupid.

I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.