I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.

It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him in The Traveling Wilburys was beyond my wildest dreams!

There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.

The hairs stand up on the back of my neck at certain music.

At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.

Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

I like the natural sound of a room. All the rooms have their own sound, so it's a matter of putting it where you like and seeing what it sounds like.

Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfection is what y ou are expecting in life.

When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.

Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.

If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad.

I feel like I'm 1,000. I don't feel I'm young enough a lot of the time.

If you think too long, you think wrong.

Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.

Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART.

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

You can sing the blues in church if you use the words right.