If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.

I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.

There is a great correlation between music and images.

Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.

The purge is made to release the aggression, anger, rage everything just in on place.

Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one!

Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself.

Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.

What you focus on expands.

Excuses are tools of the incompetent

Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.

I consciously focus on my blessings and remember what has gotten me through my past struggles: my faith and the belief that everything happens for a reason.

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails