It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, too. I was also the first footballer to have long hair, and that's how I got my nickname 'the Fifth Beatle.'
I got my first guitar when I was nine because I wanted to be the fifth Beatle, even though they had already broken up and John Lennon died that year.
Before I even became a guitar player, I wanted to be a Beatle. That was my first dream as a musician, was to be like a Beatle.
Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.
The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
The first concert I ever went to was the Bee Gees.
I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
I was very lucky to befriend many authors before even signing with an agent, and they were all so supportive of me when I told them I was in the middle of my first book.
Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
I've known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was 'Along Came Polly.'
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
When you first start out, you want to be Fellini, or you want to be Bergman.
I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.
I think that, certainly, most of my operatic roles are in German. I think it happened because, of course, I was lucky in that I was invited to sing, first of all, my operatic debut in Berlin at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, which was West Berlin at the time.
