I don't shoot kittens with balls of wool. I don't shoot sunsets. What draws me? Ironic, surreal, unexplained, timely moments.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.

I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.

There is a great correlation between music and images.

Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.

In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.

...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.

I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.

When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

For example, the use of chemical weapons [in Syria]- some on the Democrat side have said well, this encourages the North Koreans to use chemical weapons against our troops.

I've always just loved to play football, even if it was street football, like razzle-dazzle.

To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles.

The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.