I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.

What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of.

I never like to be lied to by a girlfriend or agent, and certainly not the president of the United States.

Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.

If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity.

Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.

It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.

one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us

It takes time, hard-work and a lot of sacrifices to upgrade a Curriculum Vitae, however the day you lose your honor in the society, it will take only few seconds to make it become useless.

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

My wife is a vegetarian. When my wife is with me, I eat vegetarian. When she's not, I eat meat. I'm just being honest.

We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide.

I learned that people in wheelchairs are allowed to have marathons … which, to me, seems like cheating, but what are you gonna say?

Everyone picks the best one when given a choice.

Lyrics are back, maybe. It seems like there was a bit of an attitude that lyrics are not important.

The environment is better and better for Democrats.