Thanks to my son, I've learned to laugh at myself. Laughter has been my saving grace.

I've always been very outspoken and a supporter of the underdog, because I'm one as well. I

Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's a volcanic reaction.

San Francisco is poetry. Even the hills rhyme.

I've been poor and neglected, in the middle and cherished, then rich and miserable and back to the middle and now happy. I've lived it all.

Everyone brings their own perceptions when reading a book about a real person. At the end they will take away whatever they wish.

Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.

We all have different languages

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

Flying in his dreams was an exhilarating, breathtaking experience, sometimes literally, that tended to leave reality wanting, like riding a roller coaster compared to mowing the lawn.

No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer.

Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

I think that to a great degree, reggae companies have become very corporate and so maybe some don't have that freedom to say whatever they want to say.

So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.