In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.

Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.

I definitely have a sexual ego thing. But if I'm suggestive, it's in a nice way. Luckily, no one's ever been hurt...a few girls have passed out, that's all.

I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.

I wasn't eating. I wasn't sleeping. All I was doing was cocaine. I stayed awake for about two weeks, locked in my bedroom. I went down from a 142 pounds to 110 pounds.

Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but its good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.

Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.

As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.

If you put yourself around people that want to be productive, that want to make the most of what they have, then the sky's the limit.

If we examine the essence of existence, we'll find that the essence is love. There really is nothing that isn't love.

Behind me there are already so many memories (...) Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for ... I just don't want to go along it.

We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.

Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.

Climate change: We have never faced a more critical time on our planet

The form is always integral to the expression of the theme or to the sheer telling of the story, and sometimes the right form is apparent to me from the outset and sometimes it isn't.

Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.