Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.

You gotta lean towards the things that make you like yourself. Forget everything else.

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

I became at peace with the darkness or the personality that I have. I am usually pretty funny and happy.

I drink wine on stage to sort of loosen my grip on reality a little.

My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.

A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.

I don't want somebody telling my daughter who she can marry, or what she can do with her body. That's what was at stake.

Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.

I actually don't go to shows anymore. Rock concerts have lost their appeal for me.

Not all the songs are real events, but I do write about stuff that is close to my heart and it comes out one way or another.

You are never to drive like that, ” I told them. “Even if you are ever wealthy enough to own a Jaguar.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Speak success into existence.

Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves.

The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.

You know it's time for a New Year's resolution to lose weight when you step on a talking scale and it says, "One at a time, please.

When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.

Let us seek to live in a way that is always worthy of our Christian vocation

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.