Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?

Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around.

Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. Its somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.

You're everything I hope for. You're everything I need. You are so beautiful to me.

Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.

Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.

Love lift us up where we belong.

For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.

I have one message for young musicians around the world. Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.

It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.

God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

I guess knowledge alone does not equal wisdom.

My life, as it passes thus, was indeed hateful to me, and it was during sleep alone that I could taste joy. O blessed sleep!

He [Harry Bosch] defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company

If you are always persuasive, you would be able to make new friends in society.

I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

It's easier to add things on to a PC than it's ever been before. It's one click, and boom, it comes down.

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.

Good values are like a magnet – they attract good people.

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

A friend gives hope when life is low, a friend is a place when you have nowhere to go, a friend is honest, a friend is true. A friend is precious a friend is u.