"You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate."

"He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride."

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

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."

"Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope."

"Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners."

"I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage."

"I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of."