If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

As I've gotten older, I realize how important my fans are and that I'm here because of them and not the other way around.

If you want something you just have to see it and believe in it and not take no for an answer.

When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

When a rock transforms into a diamond, lesser stones will not speak of its beauty, but speak of its unpolishedness.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Whether it's a potato or a nut, it's a foodage!

Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.

Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear, And he shows them pearly white. Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear, And he keeps them out of sight.

The world powers established this filthy bacteria, the Zionist regime, which is lashing out at the nations in the region like a wild beast.

Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.