Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.

When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope.

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.

My Zombie apocalypse plan is simple but effective; I fully intend to die in the very first wave.

If I could smoke from more than one orifice, I most certainly would.

I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not my idea of fun.

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.

When you’re faced with a choice, choose to inspire, choose to empower, choose to stand for those who have lost the will to stand for themselves.

Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!

The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.

Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

We call heaven our home, as the best name we know to give it.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Give bouquets of business. Introduce your clients to each other so they can work and prosper together.

As long as a certain problem primarily affects a different country, in this case Italy, one might not put it at the very top of one's list of priorities.

Ooh. Top secret angel business, huh? What’re you going to do? Dance on a pinhead? Lobby for National Cute Puppy Day?

We all hit bumps. But we're not defined by the bumps, we're defined by how we respond to those bumps.