A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.

It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing.

I didn't want to be anyone else.

Staying in an unhealthy relationship can keep a person from finding their own way and moving to the next level of their own path — and that person could even be you.

Maybe we are both good people who've done some bad things.

They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.

The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

Islam is politics or it is nothing.

Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept.