I do sometimes feel like the paparazzi are really what ran me out of L.A. They're just giving everyone a bad name.

I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.

It's simple. Eat well, exercise and get lots of sleep but make sure you indulge occasionally. At my age , I think , what the hell , and eat a Krispy Kreme doughnut !

I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker.... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.

Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bright side rather than the dark sida all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am.

You know, the more you can meet people from different walks of life, the better it is for you. I think the more you can create situations and experiences that give you new perspective, the better.

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

I find the less you focus on your flaws, the better off you are. Be yourself and be glad of who you are.

Love humiliates you. Hatred cradles you.

People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.

I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.

If you have to think about it twice you probably shouldn't do it

I was nine when I figured out it’s better to be respected than liked.

For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.

Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.

The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.

Successful people don’t wait for everything to be perfect to move forward.

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.

In music, all hearts are revealed to us.

[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town.