Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.

Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet.

Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.

One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.

My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.

The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.

'Captain Fantastic' was the first album in history to enter the (American) album chart at number one. We did it for a second time after that. Now that's not a boast, that's frightening.

Early risers catch the world waking and see its true colors.

The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.

This is my life.This is my calling.

The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.

Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

It's a hard slog doing promotion, but its nothing compared to working in a factory packing meat pies or whatever.

Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself --Becoming One with its object; Producing Unity of Being.

I think it's often discussed that leaving the Euro is an option for Greece. I think this is really not an option.

I did theatrical caricatures.

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.

The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God.