It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.

I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

Wavering and burning like a golden lie.

In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

You're laughing at everything that's bringing me down.

They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.

I believe in nature instead of God.

You can strike out at people, Strike off your business but you can not STRIKE down someones dreams because you can not achieve yours~bns

Life is a passing moment.

Make your life a tribute equal to the magnitude of the gift of life.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.

There's always a chance. Somebody has got to want me, and if they don't want me, then what? I want to play. I want to do what I want to do.

The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice

One of the weaknesses of the company now is it is a bit cheap and cheerful and overly nasty, and that reflects my personality.

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise.

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.