There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

It's been up to me to inspire me.

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There's one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.

And may God better understand and love us, than we, in our weakness, can do him.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

Tony's [Blair] convinced I'm going to find God. I do have spiritual moments, but I don't think it's God.

I never thought I'd be a comedian. But, growing up, I simply loved watching comedy. The '80s was huge for comedy in the US. Eddie Murphy blew me away with his film Delirious.

Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction.

A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

Class envy is dangerous.

Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?

It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.