I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

You are only as big as your experiences.

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

Sing the song or keep it inside.

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.

I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

Man-eaters are finally shot dead.

The key is in the craft.

I...am an evolved being who deals solely with the source of light...in all of us in our own minds. No middleman required.

I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

The best reason for listening to and learning from the poor is that this is one way God is revealed to us.

Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.

Blushes cannot be counterfeited.

For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sense world.