If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and they’re nice little guys who are usually in college, and they’re kind of lonely and misunderstood, learning to play guitar.

Fame has a lot of baggage to carry around. I wouldn't want to be like Bruce Springsteen. I don't need that much money and wouldn't want to have 20 bodyguards following me.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

Time never changes—we change. We complain that time is the culprit which forces us to change.

Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

Endings are hard, but important. You have to have an end, so you can have another beginning.

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

I read one thing, and 100 people can say good things then you read one bad thing that says you're the worst and you believe them.

[John McCain] didn't believe me. I think anybody who's been in a POW camp for five years can - take eight minutes on The Daily Show.

First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

Your wig steers the gig.

Integrity, or the lack of it, touches almost every facet of our lives-everything we say, every thought and desire.

Also, I think having a musicality about me, that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.