“Whenever my dad got drunk he’d come up to me and say. ‘Look son, you know, looks aren’t everything.’ ” — Pete Townshend

“Being vice president meant strengthening Bill Clinton’s hand in meetings, where we’d do a good cop-bad cop routine.” — Al Gore

“You know... that’s really the way to do a recording — in a peaceful, relaxed setting — in somebody’s basement. With the windows open... and a dog lying on the floor.” — Bob Dylan

“Osama bin Laden’s best weapon against us has been our own policies.” — Jann S. Wenner

“One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were...” — John Lennon

“We are quickly closing in on what looks an awful lot like the Vietnamization of the Iraq War.” — Bruce Springsteen

“If I could be a fuckin’ fisherman I would.” — John Lennon

“You know ‘A Boy Named Sue’? That was me, the kid who’s beaten up by macho guys, but in the end becomes the toughest man.” — Bono

“When the acid tests were going on, everyone was getting real high, everyone knew... that it was cosmic.” — Jerry Garcia

“In the beginning, we had no idea what we were doing.” — Jann S. Wenner

“I don’t think George Bush sits around and thinks about stuff I sit around and think about - all this stuff y’all call policy-wonk stuff.” — Bill Clinton

“Ahmet looked like a suave, wealthy and titled combination of Oriental pasha and the Wizard of Oz.” — Jann S. Wenner

“I have fought more damn battles here for more things than any president has in 20 years...” — Bill Clinton

“It is a mistake to think of the climate crisis as one in a list of issues that will define our future. It is the issue.” — Al Gore

“It was a terrible period. Everyone was hating each other; there were so many disagreements... everyone was so out of their brains. Touring would have been a nightmare.” — Mick Jagger

“The older I get, the less important feeding my vanity becomes.” — Barack Obama