I want my ex-wife and children to be happy.

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.

if you argue for your limitations they are yours

I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

I've always had weird hair, and it's never looked good.

Who understands much, forgives much.

Electronic man has no physical body.

My helmet is off; I'm not afraid anymore.

Fake it until you make it.