"I enjoyed all the records very much. I made them all from the heart. I made them all with art in mind, and all to reveal a picture of where I was when I made them."

"If I had as many love affairs as you've given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School."

"The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life."

"I was looking for a name like the Crickets that meant two things, and from crickets I got to beetles. And I changed [to] B E A because … B E E T L E S didn't mean two things, so I changed … the E to an A. And it meant two things then. … When you said it, people thought of crawly things; and when you read it, it was beat music."

"If you'd have asked me that question, 9 months ago, well, I would have been able to say, to come to America, to have a number one hit in America, and to play Carnegie Hall, to play the Palladium, to play in front of the Queen, and all that. ... The things we've done, they were our ambitions, say 9 months ago."

"We knew that America would make us or break us as world stars. In fact, she made us."

"I used to get mad about people recording my things; now I got a new thing going. … I don't get mad about them recording my material because they keep me alive."

"There's not many Americans, certainly not many of the teenagers I met when I first went to America, knew anything about [blues artists] at all. … They do now, which is very groovy."

"What I wanted to do with Bobby was just to get him to sound in the studio as natural, just as he was in person, and have that extraordinary personality come thru. … After all, he's not a great harmonica player, and he's not a great guitar player, and he's not a great singer. He just happens to be an original. And I just wanted to have that originality come thru."

"In the largest sense, every work of art is protest. … A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it. … A hymn is a controversial song--sing one in the wrong church: you'll find out. …"

"I like them all. … They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. … I have no favorite songs."

"Very rich."

"Some fella said to me, "Have you had LSD, Paul?" And I said "Yes." And it was only 'cuz I was going to just be honest with him. There's no other reason. I didn't want to spread it or anything, you know. I'm not trying to do anything except answer his question. But he happened to be a reporter, and I happened to be a Beatle."

"What we call a hook hits you, ... then you're almost not writing, lyrics come to you, a sort of magic takes over, and it's not like work at all."

"Here, I'm going to make you a big star … and you don't have to pay any dues. … For that, you're going to get no respect from your contemporaries. … To me, that was the cruelest thing."

"Ringo [Starr] … is always underrated. … He's probably … the finest rock drummer in the world today. … Ringo is the one."

"The softer you sing, the louder you're heard."

"Respect is something Otis achieved for himself in a way few people do. Otis sang "Respect when I come home." And Otis has come home."

"Manhood is what we profess, and what we try to get across."

"Soul is truth, … no matter where it comes from, no matter how it is presented."

"To sing blues, you've got to be able to, ... be willing to, feel things."

"... I just know that, right now, … the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll."

"Rhythm and blues used to be called race music; … this music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it."

"I took song writing seriously when I discovered girls."

"[My] publicity agent … went to hear Father Divine and he had a sermon and his subject was 'you got to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.' And I said 'Wow, that's a colorful phrase!'"

"So many proposals happened on the dance floor to the pretty music where the guy'Il say, 'Honey, I love you. Will you marry me?' I've often wondered how a young man gets through to his lady friend today when she'd be doing her own little thing 15 feet away. He tries to get her attention, waves his arms and somebody walks in between and he says, "I love you," and the little girl in the middle … a stranger . . . says "who me?""

"A song would come out … a singer's song, right? Elmo [Tanner] would whistle it. Whatever he didn't want to whistle, I would sing. Now you can imagine what I used to sing. It was frightening. Elmo was the whole band, you know?""

"I … started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out."

"For the serious aficionado of pop music and the casual listener alike, it's been a nearly unqualified success."

"A veritable schoolroom of the airwaves … significant records … leaving the story-telling … to the interview subjects."

""We just stay together, it's normal. It's more comfortable, because she's carying shampoo.. and I'm carrying balm" Lena Katina on the Frank Skinner show talking about the benefits of sharing a hotel room with Yulia."

"Gays are still thankful to us"

"Sometimes we have been asked to do things that have been uncomfortable," Lena recounts, "but for us, ultimately, t.A.T.u. is our project. I think that we have to do it in a way that is conducive to us, that we are comfortable with. If we're going to do things just because other people are telling us to, then we're just going to get lost. We have an instinct about what to do, and how to sing, and I think that usually when people are told what to do, it doesn't happen necessarily in a good way."

"As Yulia said in an interview with the Russian Bravo Magazine when explaining who the Люди-Инвалиды were, "...we are not talking about a physical disability, but only about the moral disabilities - they all have crippled souls.""

""It's about us growing up, the new challenges we face. It's a more serious album, darker and depressive because we met so many fake people in music." Lena Katina in an Interview with Planet Sound"

""Люди Инвалиды (Lyudi Invalidy) is about our lives and other peoples... Our thoughts our worries" t.A.T.u. in an interview with CD UK."

""People are focused on themselves, they become selfish, self-centered and they don't share anything! It goes beyond sexuality. The lyrics are more profound, serious and sincere than ever before. It's psychology!" Lena Katina in an interview with Tribu Move on the song "Loves Me Not." (Translation www.tatysite.net)"

""It's fucking great!" Lena Katina on the Frank Skinner show about their new album, Dangerous and Moving."

""They are so sexy, when boy kiss eachother, and girl." Yulia Volkova on Frank Skinner."

""Well, we’ve never done any PR stuff on purpose. Everything we’ve done is our own wishes. Vanya could never manage to force us do something we don’t want to. t.A.T.u. is not a product. t.A.T.u. is art." — t.A.T.u, 2005 for an Interview to the magazine «10 days» (Ukraine)."

""I love her greatly! I can do anything for her but I don’t manage to be always by her side. We need to tour. Should I drag her around with me? She’s in Moscow with nanny now. It’s okay. We have whole life ahead of us." Yulia Volkova, When asked about her Daughter and being a Mother."

""t.A.T.u is about saying what you feel, not what others expect. Be in love. Be yourself. We are." Lena Katina"

""There are other teenagers, some who are not straight, and they have lots of problems with parents and other people. We're helping them not to be afraid. That's what people like about us, I think. We're not afraid of anything. We just do what we want to do." Lena Katina"

""People are afraid of truth, People were like, 'You're not afraid that people will cancel your visas, and you'll never go to America again?' But we are provocative. That's our nature." Lena Katina, on the Hui Voine! shirts"

""That was just stupid. I don't know why they were afraid. America should be open, especially about love." Lena Katina, about the censorship of their kiss on The Tonight Show"

""Maybe we are having sex every night, but maybe not, We're still trying to figure things out, and we're not telling anyone about it. There are different kinds of love. You can love your mom, dad, girls, boys, friends, nature. I can't understand why everyone thinks we're lesbians." Lena Katina"

""We love each other, and we don't give a (expletive) what people think about our private lives" Lena Katina"

""There is a love of friends between us. Our slogan is to love and it's not important whom to love. We want to say that a boy can love a boy and a girl can love a girl. If all people would love each other, it would be easier to live in this world. If people are lead by hatred and evil, nothing good would happen from this." Yulia Volkova, Herolds Of Love Interview, Kroonika, 4 April 2006, Tallinn, Estonia."