“I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.”

“The most important thing is not the work I can do for God. The most important thing is to make God the most important thing.”

“A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.”

“It’s incredible, I think, you know, a.) to be able to meet her through his lens, not just with his honor and respect for her as the monarch, but the love that he has for her as his grandmother. All of those layers have been so important for me so that when I met her I had such a deep understanding and, of course, incredible respect for being able to have that time with her. And we’ve had a really — she’s an incredible woman.”

“A woman’s attachment to her husband may elevate her to the body of a man in her next life, but a mans attachment to woman will degrade him, and in his next life he will get the body of a woman.”

“We have every mixture you can have. I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent.”

“Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.”

“I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people’s ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That’s the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.”

“I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.”

“You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important.”