The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.

I think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experience as much of life as we can.

I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

Someone once asked me, 'How does Jimmy Page strike you?' I replied, 'With both hands, of course...'

I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.

All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools.

It's only crazy if we fail.

Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.

Words have the power to change us.

Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.

To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.

I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?

I'm on a higher plane with brain with a flame, feel the fire, desire the same.

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.

Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.