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"I can't sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. I'm shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982."

"The statists want to control the economy."

"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside."

"There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help."

"When parameters are not set for man, there is always an unknown abuse."

"One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control."

"That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films."

"It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself."
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"The other thing that has made playing live for me more enjoyable is the audience. I never knew I had such heartfelt, loving fans."

"I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself."

"I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music."

"Phil has always been a fighter. He was getting in fights all the time. I told him that if he ever hit me then I would leave the band. He wanted to find out if I was telling him the truth. He hit me so I left and that is how UFO split up."

"I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself."

"Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to."

"I have always known that it comes from deep within myself. I always knew what sound I wanted, and how I wanted to play. I knew everything, it just had to be developed."

"In the past, I have not been able to hear myself. I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically."

"If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices."
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