I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.

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.

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?

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.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

Every fulfilled wish we wrest from the world is really like alms that keep the beggar alive today so that he can starve again tomorrow.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain.

I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.

There isn't anything that is said that 'someone' won't take issue with.

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.

I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.