I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right!

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.

I thank God for his many blessings he has given me, but money and prestige are not what it's about. I seek spiritual progression.

Playin' bass runs and singin' lead vox, is sometimes difficult, but I have three words for you: Practice, practice, practice!

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.

I build my cars to go, not to stop.

It's important to push yourself to get better at your craft - whatever that is. It's important to grow and evolve with each project.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

Even people within a relationship can be really alone, and then have to go outside of it in order to find something, whatever it is. It may be very bizarre and maybe something very tender.

He said, Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.

Men have no better guidance than examples and facts proved by experience.

Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.