“All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a priva...” — Alain de Botton Quote

“All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.”

“Trying to be a sort of intellectual in the public arena is very irritating to people. They think, 'Why is this bugger on television?'”

“The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.”

“We're a band. We're hired for parties. We have to know what to do.”

“I'm an actor. I'm hired to play whatever it is they want me to play - if I'm lucky enough to be cast for the part - which seems to take a lot of luck these days.”

“A lotta years I was out there on the road pulling one-nighters. Then I got hired to sing in Sam Donahue's band in 1963. I was 19 years old.”