All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.

All those songs are totally timeless. They'll always stand up because they came from a real place. They weren't crafted songs. They were written from the heart.

If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.

I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.

Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

Money is a compensation for time spent

Live is a Dream If we want to see iT.

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.

Fans always ask, What did the bedroom look like? All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.

Imagine Martin Luther King saying, 'I have a dream ... But I don't know if the others will buy it.'

Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.

Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.