I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.

I think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experience as much of life as we can.

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

Someone once asked me, 'How does Jimmy Page strike you?' I replied, 'With both hands, of course...'

I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.

To forgive is the vocation of all Christians.

Food, like a loving touch or a glimpse of divine power, has that ability to comfort.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

I used to be a wicked disco guy.

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

How does he do it? Live. With the fear of death every day. I don't fear death as much as I fear the thought of living.

Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.

Good appearance doesn’t make a real man. The important thing is to do your best and keep your promises. A real man should show his faith in actions (rather) than words.