I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.

There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.

Don't let the sun go down on me Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.

Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same

Live for each second without hesitation

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

Better to build a bridge than a wall.

If I let myself care, all I'll feel is pain.

He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.

Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.

If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.

There's only two ways to be completely alone in this world, lost in a crowd or in total isolation.

I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.

America needs a president who can fix the economy because he understands the economy, and I do and I will.

I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.