If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.

All those songs are totally timeless. They'll always stand up because they came from a real place. They weren't crafted songs. They were written from the heart.

I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.

All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.

Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it.

I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

I hate the word wholesome.

You know what it is you smell on him, Haven? Testosterone. It's leaking out of his pores.

My vision is to work for the relationship between India and Pakistan which would be like the relation between Canada and the United States.

I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals.

No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard.