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

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.

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.

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 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.

Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.

If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine.

HAVING NEVER taken a decent holiday before, I decided on a trip to Thailand, booked a flight and flew out the following week. Mate, I loved it. The friendly people, the food, the females!

Act – make an event. Smash the coordinates and see where the smithereens fly. Let in the madness, and be sure to be a danger to oneself and others. Too much thinking turns you into that fool Hamlet.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever Its loveliness increases it will never Pass into nothingness.

Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.

I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.

... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.

You will become on the outside, what you believe on the inside.