I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.

Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

You have to jump into the pool before you know whether there's water in it.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

She was beautiful, but her youth, the very awkwardness of her age, prevented her from flaunting it.

...but before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Be encouraged to Soulfully affirm all that is duty bound to unfold in your life.

Don’t let your principles sit idle on a plaque. Bring them to life.

I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.

Hard work is for people short on talent.

I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.

It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight.

Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.

The one who is truly blessed is the one who wants to make everyone's dreams come true.