When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.

A heart that hurts is a heart that works.

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

The truth you speak doth lack some gentlenessAnd time to speak it in. You rub the soreWhen you should bring the plaster.

You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into fiction and to put out into books.

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with.

Through salvation our past has been forgiven, our present is given meaning, and out future is secured.

We don't care how big or strong opponents are as long as they are human.

I remember when a Coke came in a six-ounce bottle, and delicious it was. Now it comes in sizes so big that I question how the human bladder can deal with the intake.

They don't make coats for this kind of cold

We are very lucky really, because we can create our own reality, John [Lennon] and me, but we know the important thing is to communicate with other people.