When you make a great record, it's around forever.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records.

If you can find one thing in your life that can keep you in the moment, you're totally lucky.

When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.

On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.

I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.

The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.

I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.

The problem is that your daughter has given her heart to a 15-year-old boy, and a 15-year-old boy does not yet qualify as a human being.

For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.

I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

The art of love is to embrace the world and that which lies beyond it.

Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth).

Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.

Sometimes I didn't even feel like getting out of bed. I took to wearing my days-of-the-week panties out of order. It could be Monday and I'd have on underwear saying Thursday. I just didn't care.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

I rob banks because that's where the money is.