Life is a highway. I want to ride it all night long

Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

I make a living doing what I love doing, and it's what brings me joy.

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.

I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.

Do Tasmanian devils really exist?

I don't get mad too much.

Sometime excess pain that we experience may be best reason for birth of our talent and sometime our excess talent may be best reason for our pain. Think about it.

You see your reflections in thoughts not things.

A good story is [a] kind of irritant. You read it, then you cannot stop thinking about it. Eventually, your mind and heart encyst about it, and what occurs is a pearl of the soul.

America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists.

He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

I would hope to think my fans are full of attitude, are a bit vicious, and always fight for what they want. That's exactly what I'm going to give them.

We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

Freedom is never free.

If you want a friend, feed any animal.

A party like this isn't about the surprise factor. It's about someone going to so much trouble that it just... overwhelms you.