I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.

If you're driving, don't forget your car.

Music and soccer. They would be my two major passions.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

The Vatican takes your breath away.

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.

We just wanted to put a smile on people's faces. That's all we ever wanted to do.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

I am sailing on a ship bound for life. a line in a song

Truly, " remarked Nandi as we entered a darkened tunnel, "it is amazing that you have not died yet, mistress." "Well, hang in there. The night is young.

Sometimes I couldn't figure it out, what all the living was for.

Are you in fashion? You look like you're in fashion." "No," [Magnus] said. "I am fashion.

But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse.

I think I'm going to venture into the futuristic, semi sci-fi love story land, but still in my style of improvisation.

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.