Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career.

I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.

I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.

If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.

You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.

Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.

I believe that music is God's voice.

The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations.

We need places to scream and run wild as well as places to be quiet.

Apathetic in my adolescence, my heart is fluorescent. It flickerslike liquor store lights in the ghetto.

Maybe what my sister wanted was to stay here and get married and have a family.Maybe that was her color of extraordinary.

A suicide is tragic because nothing interrupted it.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

Knowing that wishes don’t always come about in the way that we think, but if you believe and keep your mind open, there’s a really good chance they will manifest in some way.

We have a man [Donald Trump] who understands the frustrations and the aspirations of our fellow citizens.

Just because you have a right to do something in America does not mean it is the right thing to do.

The essay is a wonderful medium. I might mention that some writers who longed to be novelists were better as essayists: Sontag, Baldwin, Vidal, Mary McCarthy, Mailer.

Rapport is the ability to enter someone else's world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond.